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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter II: The Maniac.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?
(a) He found that the heresy was untenable.
(b) He found that it was orthodoxy.
(c) He found that he no longer believed it.
(d) He found that the heresy was paganism.

2. What is the title of Chapter I?
(a) The Romance of Orthodoxy.
(b) The Paradoxes of Christianity and Everything Else.
(c) Introduction and Seduction of Thought.
(d) Introduction in Defense of Everything Else.

3. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?
(a) A mountain.
(b) The sun.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The moon.

4. What problem, according to Chesterton, is the central issue in the book?
(a) Constantly seeking the new idea.
(b) Being simultaneously surprised by and at home in the world.
(c) Defending tradition in the face of unnecessary change.
(d) Showing, through every facet, that the Christian faith is true.

5. In the same story of the sailor, what is better than discovering a new land?
(a) Discovering that the new land is really the old one.
(b) Returning home to the old land.
(c) Claiming the new land for your own.
(d) Settling the new land and making it familiar.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, why is Bernard Shaw hampered in his thinking?

2. Why does Chesterton not claim this new-found philosophy as his own?

3. What choice faces the modern religious philosopher, according to Chesterton?

4. What does Chesterton not mean by the word "orthodoxy"?

5. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).

(see the answer key)

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