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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 trait Chesterton cites as being unique to Christianity?
(a) Political power.
(b) Stories.
(c) It's ability to rise again throughout the ages.
(d) Direct contact with an all powerful deity.

2. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?
(a) Pagan religion would have kept endlessly changing.
(b) None of these.
(c) The world would have started worshipping demons.
(d) There would have been a void that would have asphyxiated mankind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say Europe would look like if it had continued in paganism?

2. What does Chesterton insist is a common error?

3. What does Chesterton bring up as a strange part of the story of the New Testament?

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

5. What does Chesterton call mankind in his conclusion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Chesterton attempt to look at the Gospels as one who had never seen them before?

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

6. What significance does Chesterton assign to the Christmas story happening in a cave?

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

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

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

10. 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?

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