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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. Who does Chesterton label as the most inspirational character from the story of the fall of Troy?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Helen.
(d) Hector.

2. What evidence does Chesterton present to support his claim that Christ was many sided?
(a) All the different things historians and popular theories claim he was.
(b) The enduring quality of his teachings.
(c) The spectrum of emotion in the Gospels.
(d) The complexity of the church doctrine.

3. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?
(a) Careful planning of the Gospels.
(b) A subtle and superior mind.
(c) The wisdom of those who assembled the Gospels.
(d) That Christ had formal schooling.

4. What does Chesterton claim the Christian church is not and never has been?
(a) Purely human.
(b) Logical.
(c) Fanatical.
(d) Beyond reason.

5. What side of Christ does Chesterton say the church emphasizes?
(a) The meek and mild one.
(b) The wrathful one.
(c) The link to God.
(d) The sufferer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton remark that Jesus never states a position against?

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

3. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?

4. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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