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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. According to Chesterton, how was the purity of the Church preserved?
(a) Fighting against paganism.
(b) Because the memory of Jesus was near.
(c) Through its ministers.
(d) Dogmatic definitions and exclusions.

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

5. What does Chesterton say the Catholic faith utilizes?
(a) The philosophy of stories.
(b) Blind faith.
(c) Pagan roots.
(d) Scare tactics.

6. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?
(a) A philosophy.
(b) A picture.
(c) A pattern.
(d) A mythology.

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

8. What statement does Chesterton make about Wells's outline of the world?
(a) It is a fascinating disquisition on history.
(b) All of these answers.
(c) It's proportions are wrong.
(d) It is only wrong as an outline.

9. How does Chesterton describe Asia?
(a) Hollow.
(b) Fortuitous.
(c) Changeless.
(d) Heartless.

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

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

12. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?
(a) The objective of his mission.
(b) Preordained.
(c) The act of greatest consequence.
(d) Timeless.

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

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

15. 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) None of these.
(c) The presence of the enemy.
(d) The absence of authority.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What format does Chesterton present his closing statements in?

3. How is the creed of Jesus like a key, according to Chesterton?

4. Which of the following does Chesterton say Christendom brought to the world?

5. In Part II, Chapter VI, what state does Chesterton say the church is currently in?

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