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

2. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?
(a) It teaches faith.
(b) It gives mankind divine responsibility.
(c) It has altered human nature.
(d) None of these.

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

4. What statement does Chesterton emphatically make about Christianity?
(a) It turned mythology into a religious system for the whole world.
(b) It created mankind as we know it.
(c) Its concepts are not connected to paganism from the past.
(d) Compared to it, all other systems are narrow.

5. What does Chesterton say about the teachings of Christ?
(a) None of these.
(b) They are not meant to be accomplished.
(c) They are paradoxes.
(d) They did not fit in his own time any better than they do now.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?

2. What does Chesterton intend his concluding chapter to be?

3. What does Chesterton say of society and the church during the rise of Christianity?

4. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Chesterton means when he says that Asia is old but Europe is born again.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What importance does Chesterton assign to the "Merry Peasant"?

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

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

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