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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 does Chesterton say about the idea of reincarnation?
(a) All of these.
(b) It takes away the need or desire for religion.
(c) It is not transcendental therefore not religious.
(d) It is a worldly way of trying to explain the unworldly.

2. What does Chesterton say the cross represents?
(a) The joining of two elements.
(b) Truth in every direction.
(c) Breaking out of the circle.
(d) Finality.

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

4. How does Chesterton describe the concept of monotheism?
(a) A terrifying notion for the small minded.
(b) The necessary end of all evolving religion.
(c) The Everest of spirituality.
(d) As large and easy to live with as the sky.

5. What religious activity does Chesterton align with Carthage?
(a) Prayers for materialistic ends.
(b) All of these.
(c) Devil worship.
(d) Infanticide.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton think seeing mankind correctly will accomplish?

2. What does Chesterton propose to accomplish in the book "The Everlasting Man"?

3. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?

4. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?

5. What does Chesterton claim as a fundamental fact of all civilizations before Christ?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Chesterton says myths are best understood and appreciated. Explain your answer.

2. What concept regarding civilization and barbarism throughout history does Chesterton refute? What does he say?

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

4. What explanation does Chesterton give for the common themes running through world mythologies?

5. How does Chesterton describe the religious experience of the Romans?

6. How does Chesterton define the view of non-Christians who live in a Christian society?

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

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

9. Summarize Chesterton's explanation of the battle between Carthage and Rome.

10. 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?

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