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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton bring up as a strange part of the story of the New Testament?
(a) The trial and punishment.
(b) The missing 30 years in Jesus's life.
(c) The miracles.
(d) The references to the passing of time.

3. According to Chesterton, what makes the enduring quality of the church so remarkable?
(a) It has survived great social changes and upheavals.
(b) The timelessness of the written text.
(c) The constant persecution of Christians.
(d) The ever increasing number of believers.

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

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say was unheard of prior to Christendom?
(a) None of these answers.
(b) Church militants.
(c) A holy land.
(d) Martyrdom.

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

7. What is Chesterton's dead dog in a river metaphor intending to convey?
(a) A dead thing can look alive when it goes downstream, but only live things swim upstream.
(b) None of these answers.
(c) Dead things can travel far after death.
(d) The world (the river) cannot always discern between dead things and live ones.

8. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about early Christianity?
(a) That it evolved naturally out of an empire in decay.
(b) Its rise could have been predicted.
(c) It had every psychological disadvantage for success.
(d) It flourished because of the times.

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

10. Which of the following is a trait Chesterton cites as being unique to Christianity?
(a) Stories.
(b) It's ability to rise again throughout the ages.
(c) Direct contact with an all powerful deity.
(d) Political power.

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

12. What does Chesterton intend his concluding chapter to be?
(a) The culmination of his arguments.
(b) A summary and outline of history.
(c) His final argument of position.
(d) An alternate point of view.

13. What does Chesterton say created the opportunity for opulence and moral degradation to enter into mainstream life in Rome?
(a) Prisoners bringing other traditions.
(b) Memories of Carthage.
(c) No religious standard.
(d) Boredom.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton say a newcomer would notice is NOT in the New Testament?

3. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?

4. To the Romans, who were used to hearing about so many different sects and religions, what does Chesterton say was different when they heard about Christ?

5. What does Chesterton determine is unique about Christ in comparison with the founders of the other major religions?

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