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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. According to Chesterton, what was Rome?
(a) The end of paganism.
(b) The pinnacle of man's ability on earth without God.
(c) A lone beacon in an age of darkness.
(d) Necessary for the arrival of Christ.

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

3. How is the creed of Jesus like a key, according to Chesterton?
(a) It is a thing with a pattern.
(b) It is essential to keep its form.
(c) All of these.
(d) It appears as an abstract, arbitrary shape.

4. Which of the following is imagery that Chesterton says is important from the Christmas story?
(a) All of these.
(b) The shepherds.
(c) The cave.
(d) Heaven rising from below.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton determine is unique about Christ in comparison with the founders of the other major religions?

2. What kind of paganism does Chesterton say they practiced in Rome?

3. What does Chesterton say are the most realistic descriptions in the New Testament?

4. What does Chesterton say created the opportunity for opulence and moral degradation to enter into mainstream life in Rome?

5. Which of the following does Chesterton say of the separation of philosophy and religion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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.

4. Describe the Europe that Chesterton says would exist if the world still lived in paganism.

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

6. 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."

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

9. According to Chesterton, how do Hector and Achilles compare when looked at historically?

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

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