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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VII: The Eternal Revolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chesterton's example, why is it important for Gradgrind to give his employees skeptical literature?
(a) If their minds always change, they will be content with anything he provides.
(b) He wants to tear down the traditions.
(c) If the ideal always changes, earthly life will stay the same.
(d) He wants to keep their minds sharp.

2. What is Chesterton's third criterion for progress?
(a) It must be like Eden.
(b) It must be earthly.
(c) It must be heavenly.
(d) It must be a utopia.

3. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?
(a) Christianity could lead him to the answers.
(b) Christianity could not answer any of his questions.
(c) Buddhism shed some light on his questions.
(d) Christianity arrived there first.

4. Chesterton names four standards by which people try to establish the ideals of equality and inequality. What is the first?
(a) The passage of time.
(b) The progression of creatures through evolution.
(c) God-given authority.
(d) Persuasive thinking, similar to Nietzsche's.

5. How does H. G. Wells perceive categories of things?
(a) He subdivides things into tiny categories.
(b) He says categories do not exist.
(c) He notes five categories.
(d) He perceives twelve categories.

Short Answer Questions

1. As he began to consider Christianity, what lifted Chesterton's heart and made him happy?

2. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)

3. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?

4. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?

5. In looking at Christianity and materialism, what coincidence stopped Chesterton in his tracks?

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