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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII: The Romance of Orthodoxy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.
(b) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.
(c) The man most affected by the book.
(d) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.

2. What words does Chesterton prefer when referring to nature?
(a) Law, theory, science.
(b) Necessity, order, tendency.
(c) Charm, spell, enchantment.
(d) Law, necessity, order.

3. What is the title of the essay that H. G. Wells wrote on skepticism?
(a) The Creeds and Hierarchies.
(b) Skepticism from a Philosophical Viewpoint.
(c) Doubts of the Instrument.
(d) Understanding the Skeptical Mind.

4. What does Chesterton call "the spike of dogma" that changed his religious opinion? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 234)
(a) God is loving and created the world in his image.
(b) God is personal and made a world separate from himself.
(c) God can be found in the nature that he made.
(d) God is all-powerful and created the world.

5. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(b) A lonely woman and her lonely child.
(c) A crushed moth and a live one.
(d) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.

Short Answer Questions

1. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?

2. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?

3. What is the single true charge that Chesterton found against Christianity?

4. What does Chesterton say concerning the boundaries of the will?

5. Why does Chesterton think that materialism is much narrower than Christianity?

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