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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV: The Ethics of Elfland.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Enlarged reason and small common sense.
(b) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(c) Narcissism and short-sightedness.
(d) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.

2. How does Chesterton feel about the book Orthodoxy once it is completed?
(a) He is very proud of it.
(b) It is not perfect but he's happy.
(c) He wants to write a sequel.
(d) He would never read it.

3. Chesterton boils democracy down to one ideal. What is this?
(a) Individual beliefs take precedence over societal concerns.
(b) The most important things must be done by individuals.
(c) Only a man can rule himself.
(d) Man's ability to rule himself extends only to the limit that he does not violate cultural mores.

4. What conclusion does the complete skeptic eventually reach?
(a) He has no right to think for himself.
(b) He will never find the answers.
(c) There are no answers to be found.
(d) No one else can think for him.

5. What, according to Chesterton, is the proper place for humility?
(a) In a man's sense of ambition and effort.
(b) In a man's perception of others.
(c) In a man's sense of conviction.
(d) In a man's view of himself.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?

2. In Chesterton's story about the sailor, what mistake does the man make?

3. According to Chesterton, what symbol explains to way that mysticism clarifies the world?

4. In Chapter III, The Suicide of Thought, how does a test of happiness compare to a test of the will?

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

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