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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 argue is the case of Asian religions and Islam?
(a) They are too removed from ethics.
(b) They leave out fundamental ideals.
(c) They are too far removed from politics.
(d) They will fade out naturally.

2. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?
(a) Education.
(b) Control of the situation.
(c) Probable distaste for vulgar claims of divinity.
(d) A mastermind.

3. What does Chesterton remark that Jesus never states a position against?
(a) War.
(b) Violence.
(c) Hate.
(d) Lawlessness.

4. What format does Chesterton present his closing statements in?
(a) A short story.
(b) Question and answers.
(c) A bulleted list.
(d) A statement with supporting details.

5. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.
(b) All of these.
(c) The intuitiveness.
(d) The order in which they come.

Short Answer Questions

1. What side of Christ does Chesterton say the church emphasizes?

2. Which of the following statements does Chesterton say about early Christians?

3. What does Chesterton state that mankind recognized from the very beginning?

4. Which of the following does Chesterton say is a crucial element of the Christmas story?

5. What position does Chesterton take in the chapter "The Riddles of the Gospel"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Chesterton mean when he refers to the Church's ability to rise again?

2. Explain Chesterton's statement, "I do not believe that mythology must begin with eroticism. But I do believe that mythology must end in it." To what was he referring?

3. How does Chesterton prove that you can determine the beliefs of the church by what it rejected?

4. Explain how Chesterton refutes the popular argument that Christ's teachings are dated because he was "a man of his time".

5. Chesterton discusses the popular notion that early Christianity rose in a barbarous time and place. Explain Chesterton's views on this matter.

6. According to Chesterton what is the difference between the "Christ of the Church" and the "Christ of the Gospels"?

7. According to Chesterton, how do Hector and Achilles compare when looked at historically?

8. What significance does Chesterton assign to the Christmas story happening in a cave?

9. What does Chesterton mean or reference when he says that on Good Friday the best things in the world were at their worst?

10. Explain the logic behind Chesterton's statement, "If the ecclesiastical and dogmatic system is as old as the Pentecost then it is as old as Christmas."

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