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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. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?
(a) Choice was an effective contrivance in past ages but not in the modern age.
(b) Choice has little effect in a man's philosophical thinking.
(c) Choice has replaced happiness as the standard of desire in a man's life.
(d) Choice has replaced free will as the standard of desire in a man's life.

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

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

4. According to Chesterton, what is too big an undertaking for a book even of a larger scope?
(a) Proving that materialism is an insufficient worldview.
(b) Explaining the intricacies of Christianity.
(c) Proving from every angle that any one faith is true.
(d) Proving the Christianity is true.

5. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?
(a) Shifting the foundations of the sea.
(b) Casting out a demon.
(c) Arguing with a learned philosopher.
(d) Tilting the earth on its axis.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

4. Why, according to Chesterton, can a madman never understand simple, careless acts?

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

(see the answer key)

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