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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. 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 key and Peter as a rock.
(d) A new world and a key.

4. What does Chesterton state that mankind recognized from the very beginning?
(a) Purpose in existence.
(b) His role in the world.
(c) His own ineptitude.
(d) His power to alter the world.

5. What does Chesterton say about the teachings of Christ?
(a) They are not meant to be accomplished.
(b) They did not fit in his own time any better than they do now.
(c) None of these.
(d) They are paradoxes.

6. 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.

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

8. What emotions does Chesterton say a first time reader of the New Testament would experience?
(a) Sadness and loss.
(b) Anger and revulsion.
(c) Awe and wonder.
(d) Surprise and fear.

9. Which of the following does Chesterton say of the separation of philosophy and religion?
(a) It divides the population into thinkers and believers.
(b) It is why science will never be fully satisfactory.
(c) It is a universal pattern in heathenism.
(d) All of the above.

10. Which of the following accusations of the Church does Chesterton refute?
(a) That it became strong because it was the official religion of Rome.
(b) That is was Manichean.
(c) All of these.
(d) That it was anti-nature and anti-life.

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

12. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about the early Church?
(a) It was very ascetic.
(b) All of these.
(c) It was blamed for being many of the things it condemned.
(d) It was caught in a swarm of mystical sects.

13. Who does Chesterton label as the most inspirational character from the story of the fall of Troy?
(a) Helen.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Hector.
(d) Paris.

14. Which of the following does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?
(a) The fall of Rome.
(b) The renaissance.
(c) The end of the dark ages.
(d) The rise of Islam.

15. What does Chesterton say is one of the fundamental differences in growing up Christian?
(a) The exclusion of all other theologies.
(b) The closeness to an all powerful being.
(c) The constant insistence of beliefs.
(d) The psychological difference caused by being raised on contrasting ideas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?

2. What does Chesterton say was the reaction of the populace to the rising Christian movement?

3. What does Chesterton say is strong roots for humanity?

4. What does Chesterton argue is the case of Asian religions and Islam?

5. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?

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