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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton determine is unique about Christ in comparison with the founders of the other major religions?
(a) The enduring quality of his teachings.
(b) His ability to heal.
(c) His claim to divinity.
(d) His missing childhood.

2. What does Chesterton say a newcomer would notice is NOT in the New Testament?
(a) The direct influence of God.
(b) Descriptions.
(c) Explanations.
(d) Platitudes.

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

4. What accepted social practice common in Christ's time does Chesterton use to exemplify how his teachings are not bound to them?
(a) Infanticide.
(b) Polygamy.
(c) Suicide.
(d) Slavery.

5. Chesterton called the Church the mortal enemy of what movement?
(a) Gnostic.
(b) Manichean.
(c) Aescetic.
(d) Pacifist.

6. What does Chesterton argue is the case of Asian religions and Islam?
(a) They are too removed from ethics.
(b) They are too far removed from politics.
(c) They will fade out naturally.
(d) They leave out fundamental ideals.

7. Which of the following does Chesterton say is the most puzzling and terrifying?
(a) Christ of the Church.
(b) Historical Christianity.
(c) Modern Christianity.
(d) The Gospels.

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

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

10. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?
(a) Desire for violence.
(b) The hope for mankind.
(c) Intellectuality and philosophy.
(d) Curiosity.

11. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?
(a) It has altered human nature.
(b) None of these.
(c) It gives mankind divine responsibility.
(d) It teaches faith.

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

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

14. 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 is a universal pattern in heathenism.
(d) It divides the population into thinkers and believers.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What great paradox rests at the heart of Christianity?

2. From what does Chesterton's friend say the spire of a village church is originated?

3. What two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?

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

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

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