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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. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
(a) The intervention of God.
(b) None of these.
(c) Animals doing things in the providence of man.
(d) That he might return to be one again.

2. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?
(a) All of these.
(b) The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it.
(c) The church is justified, not because her children do not sin, but because they do.
(d) The next best thing to being really inside Christendom is to be really outside it.

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

4. What does Chesterton compare to the variation found in cheeses or wine?
(a) The forms of paganism.
(b) The way mankind worships the one true God.
(c) The variations within the Church of Christ.
(d) The theories of scientists to explain the same phenomenon.

5. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?
(a) Great civilizations arose throughout history.
(b) Evidence that the most powerful leaders are revered as gods.
(c) Evidence that the state grew more despotic as it grew more civilized.
(d) Barbarism can exist in complicated civilizations.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?

3. Which of the following does Chesterton note it is important to remember about the psychology of myths?

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

5. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain how Chesterton uses Egypt and Babylon to further his arguments.

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

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

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

8. Chesterton claims to see the concept of an all powerful God in many pagan religions. Explain his position.

9. Explain the phrase from the introduction, "...The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it."

10. Explain where, according to Chesterton, we find religion and reason and how they interact.

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