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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Helen.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Hector.

2. Despite the level of sincerity a myth might be understood, what does Chesterton say is still present?
(a) Fundamental belief.
(b) Reality and religious sentiment.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Skepticism.

3. What does Chesterton say has been done too much to mythologies of the world?
(a) Analyze their origins.
(b) All of these.
(c) Study them scientifically.
(d) Look for common themes.

4. Chesterton claims the holy trinity is an upside version of what?
(a) The three original elements of religion.
(b) Grandfather-Father-Son.
(c) Society.
(d) The family.

5. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?
(a) The concept of original sin.
(b) The need for decoration and artistic expression.
(c) Virtue in cave men.
(d) How ill designed mankind is to survive like a beast.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say about superstition?

2. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?

3. What does Chesterton say is most present in the mind of man?

4. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?

5. Why does Chesterton claim that some people have difficulty perceiving Christianity correctly?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Chesterton was trying to explain with his example of the horse and rider.

2. Chesterton says he wants to reclassify religions. What does he mean and how does he intend to do it?

3. Explain how and why, according to Chesterton, the pace at which things move changes our perception of them.

4. In the chapter titled "The War of the Gods and Demons", who are the Gods and who are the Demons? Why does Chesterton label them as such?

5. In the beginning of the introduction, Chesterton uses an analogy of a boy leaving his farmland home and looking back on his homeland as he does so. What is he trying to explain or make clear with this analogy?

6. How does Troy and the Iliad enter into Chesterton's argument?

7. Explain the example Chesterton uses of nomadic peoples to explain the classification of religions.

8. How well does Chesterton think science is explaining the origins of mankind? Why?

9. What is Chesterton's analysis of symbols such as the circle, the swastika, and the cross?

10. How sincere does Chesterton say myths are? Explain your answer.

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