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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?
(a) The exaltation of childhood.
(b) All of these.
(c) The mixing of religion and revolution.
(d) Subservience to an all powerful God.

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

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

4. Which of the following is imagery that Chesterton says is important from the Christmas story?
(a) The cave.
(b) The shepherds.
(c) Heaven rising from below.
(d) All of these.

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

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

7. What does Chesterton call mankind in his conclusion?
(a) Created in the likeness of God.
(b) None of these answers.
(c) Something really different under the sun.
(d) A race of gods.

8. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?
(a) The worship of demons.
(b) Sensuality from Greece.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Desire for wealth.

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

10. What side of Christ does Chesterton say the church emphasizes?
(a) The link to God.
(b) The meek and mild one.
(c) The sufferer.
(d) The wrathful one.

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

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

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

14. What statement does Chesterton emphatically make about Christianity?
(a) Compared to it, all other systems are narrow.
(b) Its concepts are not connected to paganism from the past.
(c) It turned mythology into a religious system for the whole world.
(d) It created mankind as we know it.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?

3. What accepted social practice common in Christ's time does Chesterton use to exemplify how his teachings are not bound to them?

4. According to Chesterton, how much of the church as ever been threatened by extinction?

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say was unheard of prior to Christendom?

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