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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 does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?
(a) The renaissance.
(b) The rise of Islam.
(c) The end of the dark ages.
(d) The fall of Rome.

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

3. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about early Christianity?
(a) It flourished because of the times.
(b) It had every psychological disadvantage for success.
(c) That it evolved naturally out of an empire in decay.
(d) Its rise could have been predicted.

4. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?
(a) Desire for wealth.
(b) Sensuality from Greece.
(c) The worship of demons.
(d) Laziness.

5. 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) None of these.
(d) The three Marys.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say was the reaction of the populace to the rising Christian movement?

2. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?

3. Which of the following accusations of the Church does Chesterton refute?

4. How does Chesterton characterize the wanderings of Jesus?

5. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Explain what Chesterton meant when he said the birth of Christ turned the universe inside out, or that the circumference had been turned into the center.

5. What reason does Chesterton give for presenting the last chapter in this fashion?

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

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. Explain the logic behind Chesterton's statement, "If the ecclesiastical and dogmatic system is as old as the Pentecost then it is as old as Christmas."

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

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

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