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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. According to Chesterton, how was the purity of the Church preserved?
(a) Because the memory of Jesus was near.
(b) Fighting against paganism.
(c) Dogmatic definitions and exclusions.
(d) Through its ministers.

2. Which of the following does Chesterton say of the separation of philosophy and religion?
(a) It divides the population into thinkers and believers.
(b) All of the above.
(c) It is a universal pattern in heathenism.
(d) It is why science will never be fully satisfactory.

3. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Foreshadowing.
(b) Comparative degrees.
(c) Parallel plots.
(d) A story within a story.

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

5. What does Chesterton state that mankind recognized from the very beginning?
(a) His role in the world.
(b) His own ineptitude.
(c) Purpose in existence.
(d) His power to alter the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?

2. Which of the following does Chesterton say is an important element in the Christian faith?

3. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?

4. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?

5. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What important role does Herod play in the Christmas story as Chesterton sees it?

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

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

5. Explain the difference that Chesterton sees in the wandering of Christ from the wandering of other philosophers.

6. Explain Chesterton's view on the role of the mother in the Christmas story.

7. How does Chesterton connect Christ's intellectual ability to his claim of divinity?

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

10. 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?

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