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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter III: The Suicide of Thought.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Chesterton call the cross "the symbol at once of mystery and of health?" (Chesterton 2000, pg. 188).
(a) Its shocking history draws believers in.
(b) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(c) Its power contradicts its history.
(d) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.

2. What fact do religious men no longer accept as a foundational belief?
(a) Righteous wrath.
(b) Mercy.
(c) Sin.
(d) Forgiveness.

3. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?
(a) They are isolated from all other virtues.
(b) They are not truly Christian.
(c) They are separate from the Bible.
(d) They are practiced in the wrong contexts.

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, what is the problem with modern philosophers?
(a) They are intellectually lazy.
(b) They cannot find the answer.
(c) They have no hope of finding the answer.
(d) They cannot see the riddle.

5. As revealed in Chapter Two, what is the secret of mysticism?
(a) Mysticism leads to God, who has the answers.
(b) A man can understand life through things he does not understand.
(c) Mysticism provides a lens for understanding the supernatural.
(d) A man can try to understand life through the supernatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?

2. What happened as Chesterton put the final touches onto the heresy he had created?

3. According to Chesterton, at the beginning of Chapter Two, what happens to the men who believe in themselves?

4. What does Chesterton assume as common ground between him and any reader?

5. When materialism leads a man to fatalism, what does it also accomplish, according to Chesterton?

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