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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. In Part I, Chapter VII, what new thing does Chesterton say we need?
(a) Imagination in our world view.
(b) A psychological history.
(c) A certification program for religions.
(d) Standards for world creeds.

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

3. Which of the following does Chesterton note it is important to remember about the psychology of myths?
(a) All of these.
(b) They contain all shades of insincerity.
(c) They contain all shades of sincerity.
(d) They are often strictly local.

4. What does say Chesterton say would have been very different if the battle between Carthage and Rome were different?
(a) The struggle which established Christendom.
(b) The common face of religion.
(c) Christendom.
(d) The world.

5. What does Chesterton say about superstition?
(a) It is a very human and intelligible sentiment.
(b) It is closely related to agnosticism.
(c) It assumes we do not know the laws of the universe.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Chesterton think physical anthropologists do to excess?

3. According to Chesterton, what do mythologies have the power to do?

4. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the elements Chesterton says are popularly believed to be the root of religion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What parallel does Chesterton make between social structure and cannibalism? Explain.

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

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

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

5. To what depiction of the cave-man does Chesterton most object and why?

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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