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

2. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?
(a) The best things in the world are at their worst.
(b) It is too often read symbolically.
(c) It is why Rome was created.
(d) It is a day of demons and paganism.

3. Which of the following accusations of the Church does Chesterton refute?
(a) That it was anti-nature and anti-life.
(b) That it became strong because it was the official religion of Rome.
(c) That is was Manichean.
(d) All of these.

4. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?
(a) None of these.
(b) Christ rising from the grave.
(c) The moment when God had been forsaken of God.
(d) The three Marys.

5. What does Chesterton intend his concluding chapter to be?
(a) An alternate point of view.
(b) The culmination of his arguments.
(c) His final argument of position.
(d) A summary and outline of history.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, how was the purity of the Church preserved?

2. Which of the following does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?

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

4. What does Chesterton say are the most realistic descriptions in the New Testament?

5. Which of the following is imagery that Chesterton says is important from the Christmas story?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Explain what Chesterton meant when he said the birth of Christ turned the universe inside out, or that the circumference had been turned into the center.

3. What two elements does Chesterton claim the church unites? How does it do it?

4. What was the religious state of Rome when Christ appeared?

5. What comprises the last chapter of the book "The Everlasting Man"? Summarize what it says.

6. What possible exception does Chesterton make to the statement that Christendom is unique in the creation of church militants? Why does he say the exception doesn't count?

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

8. How does Chesterton refute the common idea to label Christ as a man who was a great philosopher, or a social reformer, or a healer?

9. 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?

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

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