1. In moving through fairyland, what is the test of happiness, according to Chesterton?
(a) Reciprocity.
(b) Goodness.
(c) Gratitude.
(d) Surprise.

2. What document does Chesterton refer to by the word "orthodoxy"?
(a) The Nicene Creed.
(b) The Disciples' Creed.
(c) The Athanasian Creed.
(d) The Apostles' Creed.

3. What examples does Chesterton give of lunatic thinking?
(a) Two competing maggots in a chunk of bread.
(b) A crushed moth and a live one.
(c) A man conspired against, the King of England, and Jesus Christ.
(d) A lonely woman and her lonely child.

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

5. Why does Chesterton say that satire is disappearing from modern literature?
(a) There is nothing to be fierce about.
(b) Writers are not taught to appreciate satire.
(c) Satire is too violent for the modern mind.
(d) Modern satire takes different forms than literature.

Short Answer Questions

1. "[T]he happiness depended on not doing something which you could at any moment do and which, very often, it was not obvious why you should not do." (Chesterton 2000, pg 215) What is Chesterton's opinion of this condition for happiness?

2. What does Bernard Shaw assert about the idea of choice?

3. As Chesterton explains the origin of the word, the moon is the mother of which group of people?

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

5. What is Chesterton's attitude toward fairy tales?

(see the answer key)

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