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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 does Chesterton say of myths?
(a) All of these.
(b) They do not provide mankind with a creed.
(c) They are not a religion.
(d) They meet some of the needs of a religion.

2. 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.

3. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?
(a) Name the objects of their theories.
(b) Glorify their theories.
(c) Theorize from very little evidence.
(d) Invest themselves into their theories.

4. What opinion does Chesterton hold of the concept "realpolitik," or the notion that men fight for material purposes?
(a) It is an almost insanely unreal concept.
(b) None of these.
(c) It is a simplistic rendering of a complex problem.
(d) It is true unless the men have religion.

5. What place does Chesterton say was the center of antiquity?
(a) The Mediterranean.
(b) Mecca.
(c) Babylon.
(d) Egypt.

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

7. 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 Mazatlan.
(c) Egypt and Rome.
(d) Rome and Greece.

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

9. What does Chesterton think of the theory that mankind is solely motivated by economic reasons of subsistence?
(a) That it is fundamentally and universally true.
(b) That it is the primary motivating factor only when subsistence is threatened.
(c) That it is absolutely untrue.
(d) That it is true except in the case of religion.

10. What does Chesterton say is missing from the popular depiction of prehistory?
(a) Mysticism.
(b) The family unit.
(c) Practicality.
(d) Humor.

11. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
(a) The intervention of God.
(b) Animals doing things in the providence of man.
(c) None of these.
(d) That he might return to be one again.

12. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?
(a) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.
(b) It is a mistaken scientific fad.
(c) It is irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(d) It is blasphemous.

13. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about paganism?
(a) That even pagan religions incorporate the notion of one all powerful supreme being.
(b) Paganism is used to explain human fears.
(c) That paganism is the root of all practice within Christianity.
(d) That paganism naturally subsides in the face of Christianity.

14. How does Chesterton summarize the substance of pagan beliefs and mythologies?
(a) Colorful forms of entertainment.
(b) Devoid of depth.
(c) The worshipping of pieces of God.
(d) An attempt to reach divine reality through the imagination.

15. In what way does Chesterton say the philosophers gained great influence?
(a) By throwing doubt on superstition and false beliefs.
(b) By presenting ideas that explained the natural world.
(c) By creating order out of chaos.
(d) As advisors to kings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say of the Roman polytheism before the time of Christ?

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

3. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?

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

5. If men were like other animals, what does Chesterton argue that we should see?

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