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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton claim the Christian church is not and never has been?
(a) Fanatical.
(b) Beyond reason.
(c) Purely human.
(d) Logical.

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

3. What kind of paganism does Chesterton say they practiced in Rome?
(a) The kind that is more human than godly.
(b) The worst kind.
(c) The best kind.
(d) The forgotten kind.

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

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

6. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) The intuitiveness.
(b) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.
(c) All of these.
(d) The order in which they come.

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

8. According to Chesterton, what social point does divinity being born as an outcast make?
(a) God is not allied with any government or state.
(b) God can rise up from the lowest point.
(c) None of these.
(d) Individuals are important.

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

10. Which of the following does Chesterton say is an important element in the Christian faith?
(a) The duality of heaven and hell.
(b) The concept of a single life on earth.
(c) Rebirth.
(d) The master suffering instead of his servants.

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

12. What popular belief about the New Testament does Chesterton refute?
(a) That Jesus was apolitical.
(b) That the books of the New Testament are contradictory.
(c) That Jesus was a merciful and humane lover of humanity.
(d) That the scriptures need interpretation.

13. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?
(a) A virus.
(b) A beacon of light in darkness.
(c) A tree that is rapidly full grown.
(d) Labor pains.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?

2. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?

3. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?

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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