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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 is the most puzzling and terrifying?
(a) Modern Christianity.
(b) Historical Christianity.
(c) The Gospels.
(d) Christ of the Church.

2. What does Chesterton say is unique about the Church Militant?
(a) The goal of universal deliverance.
(b) Willingness to die for religion.
(c) The change of power from state to religion.
(d) Salvation.

3. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?
(a) The best things in the world are at their worst.
(b) It is too often read symbolically.
(c) It is a day of demons and paganism.
(d) It is why Rome was created.

4. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?
(a) The moment when God had been forsaken of God.
(b) Christ rising from the grave.
(c) The three Marys.
(d) None of these.

5. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?
(a) Probable distaste for vulgar claims of divinity.
(b) A mastermind.
(c) Control of the situation.
(d) Education.

6. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Parallel plots.
(b) A story within a story.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Comparative degrees.

7. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?
(a) A picture.
(b) A mythology.
(c) A pattern.
(d) A philosophy.

8. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?
(a) None of these.
(b) The world would have started worshipping demons.
(c) There would have been a void that would have asphyxiated mankind.
(d) Pagan religion would have kept endlessly changing.

9. Which of the following does Chesterton say is a crucial element of the Christmas story?
(a) The stoic presence and faith of the father.
(b) The presence of the enemy.
(c) None of these.
(d) The absence of authority.

10. What evidence does Chesterton present to support his claim that Christ was many sided?
(a) The spectrum of emotion in the Gospels.
(b) All the different things historians and popular theories claim he was.
(c) The enduring quality of his teachings.
(d) The complexity of the church doctrine.

11. According to Chesterton, how much of the church as ever been threatened by extinction?
(a) All of it but a ghost.
(b) The superficial practices.
(c) None of it.
(d) Perhaps up to half.

12. What does Chesterton make a point of making clear about the manger where Christ was born?
(a) None of these.
(b) That it was also a cave.
(c) That the connection with animals is central.
(d) That it was a link to agrarian roots.

13. What does Chesterton say is strong roots for humanity?
(a) Religious meeting places.
(b) History.
(c) Having foes to keep us united.
(d) Links to our agrarian past.

14. What does Chesterton call Islam?
(a) Monotheism without God.
(b) The worst of the civilized heathenisms.
(c) The greatest of the Eastern heresies.
(d) Dangerous and deceitful.

15. What two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?
(a) Religion and exclusion.
(b) God and man.
(c) Faith and morality.
(d) The beliefs of the shepherds and the philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What additional paradox does Chesterton see in the Christmas story?

2. How is the creed of Jesus like a key, according to Chesterton?

3. According to Chesterton, what are the very important images upon which Christ founded the church?

4. What popular belief about the New Testament does Chesterton refute?

5. What does Chesterton say the Catholic faith utilizes?

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