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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 power contradicts its history.
(b) Its shocking history draws believers in.
(c) It does not represent the closed system of Eastern thought.
(d) Its arms extend throughout the whole world.

2. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?
(a) He wrote it so he could win a bet.
(b) No one around him agrees with his argument.
(c) He went looking for something that is already known.
(d) He does not take its content seriously.

3. What thing does Chesterton despise more than anything else?
(a) An illogical argument.
(b) A blatant lie.
(c) The creativity of desperation.
(d) Pure sophistry.

4. At the beginning of Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, why does Chesterton say that the modern world is too good?
(a) Its ethics are better than they used to be.
(b) It deals well with evil.
(c) It has little conception of vice.
(d) It is full of wasted virtues.

5. Chesterton says that this common ground is mostly found among what group of readers?
(a) People who have read a large amount of Christian apologetics.
(b) Well-educated readers.
(c) Readers from Eastern culture.
(d) Readers from Western culture.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does today's skeptic compare to the skeptic of the French Revolution, according to Chesterton?

2. What widespread mistake about mystical imagination does Chesterton want to erase?

3. Why does Chesterton say that the Christian virtues have become crazy?

4. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?

5. What does Chesterton say happens when a skeptic revolts against everything?

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