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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VI: The Paradoxes of Christianity.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) He thinks it is just.
(b) He thinks it depends on the fairy tale.
(c) He thinks it is immaterial.
(d) He thinks it is unjust.

2. Who is Mr. Street?
(a) A character in one of Chesterton's tales.
(b) The man most affected by the book.
(c) A philosopher who probably opposes Chesterton.
(d) A journalist who first reviewed the book Orthodoxy.

3. What does evolution destroy, according to Chesterton?
(a) Reason.
(b) Modern intelligence.
(c) Science.
(d) Religion.

4. What does Chesterton think is the only cure for madness?
(a) Shock therapy.
(b) Not thinking.
(c) Being isolated.
(d) Not feeling.

5. Why, earlier in Chapter One, does Chesterton tell the story of the sailor?
(a) He is that sailor.
(b) To illustrate his idea of wonder.
(c) The sailor will appear throughout the book.
(d) To explain his picture of God.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two, what drives a man to insanity?

2. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?

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

4. What does Chesterton call the worst religion of all?

5. What does Chesterton say that moralists, including H. G. Wells, have turned into wickedness?

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