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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. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?
(a) A search.
(b) The movement of someone to whom physical location is irrelevant.
(c) A quest.
(d) A journey into fire.

2. What statement does Chesterton make about Wells's outline of the world?
(a) All of these answers.
(b) It is a fascinating disquisition on history.
(c) It's proportions are wrong.
(d) It is only wrong as an outline.

3. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?
(a) Labor pains.
(b) A virus.
(c) A beacon of light in darkness.
(d) A tree that is rapidly full grown.

4. What does Chesterton say Europe would look like if it had continued in paganism?
(a) Amoral.
(b) Asia.
(c) Barbarous.
(d) The dark ages.

5. What two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?
(a) God and man.
(b) Faith and morality.
(c) Religion and exclusion.
(d) The beliefs of the shepherds and the philosophers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton make a point of making clear about the manger where Christ was born?

2. What does Chesterton call mankind in his conclusion?

3. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?

4. What additional paradox does Chesterton see in the Christmas story?

5. What does Chesterton say the Catholic faith utilizes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much have historical events aided or been obstacles to the continuation of the Church?

2. 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?

3. Explain how Chesterton comes to the conclusion that Christ was an intellectually apt and astute man?

4. Explain how the Christian creed is like a key, according to Chesterton.

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

6. Why does Chesterton attempt to look at the Gospels as one who had never seen them before?

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

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

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

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

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