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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. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?
(a) A pattern.
(b) A philosophy.
(c) A mythology.
(d) A picture.

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

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

4. What does Chesterton say created the opportunity for opulence and moral degradation to enter into mainstream life in Rome?
(a) No religious standard.
(b) Prisoners bringing other traditions.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Memories of Carthage.

5. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?
(a) The act of greatest consequence.
(b) Timeless.
(c) Preordained.
(d) The objective of his mission.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, what makes the enduring quality of the church so remarkable?

3. What does Chesterton say is one of the fundamental differences in growing up Christian?

4. What does Chesterton state that mankind recognized from the very beginning?

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say is the most puzzling and terrifying?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What does Chesterton mean when he refers to the Church's ability to rise again?

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

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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