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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What accepted social practice common in Christ's time does Chesterton use to exemplify how his teachings are not bound to them?
(a) Polygamy.
(b) Slavery.
(c) Infanticide.
(d) Suicide.

2. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?
(a) Curiosity.
(b) The hope for mankind.
(c) Intellectuality and philosophy.
(d) Desire for violence.

3. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?
(a) The movement of someone to whom physical location is irrelevant.
(b) A quest.
(c) A search.
(d) A journey into fire.

4. Which of the following does Chesterton say is the most puzzling and terrifying?
(a) The Gospels.
(b) Modern Christianity.
(c) Historical Christianity.
(d) Christ of the Church.

5. What does Chesterton remark that Jesus never states a position against?
(a) Hate.
(b) War.
(c) Lawlessness.
(d) Violence.

6. What does Chesterton say of society and the church during the rise of Christianity?
(a) One was dying and the other being born.
(b) Society clung to the church like a parasite.
(c) They were dependent on each other.
(d) They were both complex and many sided.

7. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?
(a) The wisdom of those who assembled the Gospels.
(b) A subtle and superior mind.
(c) Careful planning of the Gospels.
(d) That Christ had formal schooling.

8. What does Chesterton say about Rome in the 4th Century?
(a) It was the ruins of a civilization.
(b) It was barbarous.
(c) It was undeniably a civilization.
(d) It had no moral system in place.

9. What does Chesterton say God provided in the story of Jesus Christ?
(a) Martyrdom.
(b) A model for redemption.
(c) The ultimate story.
(d) Guilt of sin.

10. How is the creed of Jesus like a key, according to Chesterton?
(a) It is essential to keep its form.
(b) All of these.
(c) It is a thing with a pattern.
(d) It appears as an abstract, arbitrary shape.

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

12. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?
(a) Unavoidable.
(b) An interruption in his teaching.
(c) Inconsequential.
(d) Symbolic of the time.

13. What additional paradox does Chesterton see in the Christmas story?
(a) The light of God arriving in the dark.
(b) The human birth with the celestial marker.
(c) The importance and insignificance of the gathering.
(d) None of these.

14. According to Chesterton, what are the very important images upon which Christ founded the church?
(a) A rock and a risen God.
(b) A beacon of light and an eternal father.
(c) A new world and a key.
(d) A key and Peter as a rock.

15. According to Chesterton, what was Rome?
(a) The pinnacle of man's ability on earth without God.
(b) The end of paganism.
(c) Necessary for the arrival of Christ.
(d) A lone beacon in an age of darkness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?

2. Which of the following is NOT one of the three distinct things that make up one in the Christmas story?

3. Which of the following accusations of the Church does Chesterton refute?

4. What great paradox rests at the heart of Christianity?

5. According to Chesterton, what makes the enduring quality of the church so remarkable?

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