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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. Which of the following best describes Chesterton's view of the theory of evolution?
(a) It is useful to explain the world in conjunction with God.
(b) It is irrelevant to and disconnected from his topic.
(c) It is blasphemous.
(d) It is a mistaken scientific fad.

2. What tactic does Chesterton recommend that people use to see Christianity more fairly?
(a) Pretend it is a foreign pagan religion and give it the same respect.
(b) Temporarily embrace it as a faith to see it from the inside.
(c) Talk to foreigners about Christianity and accept their views.
(d) Dabble in another religion to have something for comparison.

3. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?
(a) The Old Testament.
(b) Monotheism.
(c) The book of Job.
(d) Christianity.

4. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?
(a) All of these.
(b) Nomads who do not evolve into a more civilized state.
(c) Evidence to refute the commonly held notion of barbarism and civilization.
(d) A society that has no evidence of being nomadic.

5. What does Chesterton claim the evidence proves about cave men?
(a) None of these.
(b) They already had organized religion.
(c) They were very much like men today.
(d) They had no way of understanding the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Chesterton's list of great influential philosophers includes which of the following?

2. What does say Chesterton say would have been very different if the battle between Carthage and Rome were different?

3. What does Chesterton propose to do in order to explain the faults of comparative religion?

4. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?

5. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, how accurate is H. G. Wells's concept of the "Old Man"?

3. How does Chesterton refute the idea that religion came from people's experiences with authority, dreams, and the cycles of life?

4. Explain the significance that Chesterton gives the cave drawings regarding the nature of the cave man.

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

6. Who, according to Chesterton, are some of the greatest philosophers?

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

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

9. What simple truth about mankind does Chesterton deduce from his discussion of the cave drawings? What arguments does he make?

10. How does Chesterton refute the statement that prehistoric man "wore no clothes"?

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