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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Hector.
(c) Helen.
(d) Agamemnon.

2. What does Chesterton say is the main fault with comparing religions?
(a) They do not resemble each other.
(b) All of these.
(c) False classification masks the uniqueness of the church.
(d) Confucianism is not a religion.

3. What does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?
(a) Mankind is a microcosm of the universe.
(b) Mankind is made in the image of God.
(c) Mankind is a very strange being.
(d) Mankind is the only religious being.

4. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?
(a) The monopoly of religion to those with power.
(b) The ineffectiveness of mystic rule.
(c) The insignificance of the individual before the state.
(d) The fear of mystical leaders.

5. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?
(a) With the wonder of somebody seeing it for the first time.
(b) With the detached impartiality of a martian.
(c) With the eyes of an anthropologist.
(d) From the daily experiences within it.

6. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?
(a) Reclassify the major religions of the world by different standards.
(b) Look at Christianity as if it were a foreign religion.
(c) Analyze the origins of each religion.
(d) Look at the church from the inside.

7. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?
(a) None of these.
(b) They were very much like men today.
(c) They had no way of understanding the world.
(d) They already had organized religion.

8. To what popular religious practice of his time does Chesterton object?
(a) The worship of the entirety of mankind as a supreme being.
(b) Mass in English.
(c) Incorporating localized traditions into religious practice.
(d) Reading religious texts as metaphors.

9. Why does Chesterton say men fight?
(a) For the greater good.
(b) For justice.
(c) To avoid fear and change.
(d) For the love and protection of his home.

10. What does Chesterton say is the natural result of religion in the home?
(a) Revolt in public life.
(b) Religious strife.
(c) Temperance.
(d) Polytheism.

11. What does Chesterton say about superstition?
(a) It is closely related to agnosticism.
(b) It is a very human and intelligible sentiment.
(c) It assumes we do not know the laws of the universe.
(d) All of these.

12. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?
(a) Pretend it is a foreign pagan religion and give it the same respect.
(b) Temporarily embrace it as a faith to see it from the inside.
(c) Dabble in another religion to have something for comparison.
(d) Talk to foreigners about Christianity and accept their views.

13. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?
(a) The huge difference between cave men and apes.
(b) The emergence of religion.
(c) Language.
(d) The artistry of cave drawings.

14. Who does Chesterton say would be the second best judge of Christianity?
(a) An agnostic.
(b) An atheist.
(c) A Confucian.
(d) A Christian.

15. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?
(a) Paganism.
(b) Familiarity.
(c) Science.
(d) Professors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say about the idea of reincarnation?

2. Why does Chesterton claim that some people have difficulty perceiving Christianity correctly?

3. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?

4. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?

5. According to Chesterton, how do civilization and barbarism interact?

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