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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.
(b) All of these.
(c) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
(d) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.

2. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?
(a) Egypt and Babylon.
(b) Egypt and Rome.
(c) Rome and Greece.
(d) Egypt and Mazatlan.

3. What does Chesterton say about the idea of reincarnation?
(a) It is not transcendental therefore not religious.
(b) It is a worldly way of trying to explain the unworldly.
(c) It takes away the need or desire for religion.
(d) All of these.

4. What importance does Chesterton give to the pace at which things go?
(a) The real question is in why they go at all.
(b) The pace at which things go determines their importance and influence.
(c) The pace at which things go makes no difference on how we perceive them.
(d) A fast pace makes things seem like a miracle.

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

6. What does Chesterton say the cross represents?
(a) Finality.
(b) Truth in every direction.
(c) The joining of two elements.
(d) Breaking out of the circle.

7. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?
(a) They were more enlightened and closer to monotheism.
(b) They were more barbaric and their religion darker.
(c) They had more fanciful and less dark mythologies.
(d) They had stricter moral rules of relgious conduct.

8. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?
(a) Theories that are sensational but untrue.
(b) None of these.
(c) The scientists.
(d) The inability to experiment or directly observe.

9. 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.

10. What connection does Chesterton make between the boy and the cave-man?
(a) They have the same primal urges.
(b) They both draw animals for the same reasons.
(c) They transcend their heritage.
(d) They share the same innocent interpretation of life.

11. What does Chesterton say of the Roman polytheism before the time of Christ?
(a) The gods took on a more domestic nature.
(b) All of these.
(c) The gods became closer to people.
(d) The gods became more localized.

12. What sentiment does Chesterton says pervades the ideologies of the far east?
(a) The need for social order.
(b) Focus on the self.
(c) The spirit of repetition and recurrence.
(d) Spirituality through physical beauty.

13. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?
(a) The need for decoration and artistic expression.
(b) The concept of original sin.
(c) Virtue in cave men.
(d) How ill designed mankind is to survive like a beast.

14. In Part I, Chapter VII, what new thing does Chesterton say we need?
(a) A certification program for religions.
(b) Imagination in our world view.
(c) A psychological history.
(d) Standards for world creeds.

15. Despite the level of sincerity a myth might be understood, what does Chesterton say is still present?
(a) Reality and religious sentiment.
(b) Fundamental belief.
(c) Skepticism.
(d) Superficiality.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?

2. What happens when an onlooker tries to envision the church as a member of a throng of superstitions lobbying for believers?

3. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?

4. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?

5. How does Chesterton say a myth must be appreciated?

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