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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. Why, according to Christianity, can passions be free?
(a) Because they are kept in their proper places.
(b) Because a believer's conscience keeps him from extreme passions.
(c) Because they are monitored by the church.
(d) Because their consequences will not come until the afterlife.

2. Why does Chesterton assert that tall towers are an example of humility?
(a) A man must be small to appreciate their size.
(b) They speak to man's sense of accomplishment.
(c) They remind man how far he still must go.
(d) They connect a man directly to God, who is greater.

3. In Chapter IV, The Ethics of Elfland, what does Chesterton name as the first principle of democracy?
(a) Men act as individuals.
(b) Men act within the body of citizens.
(c) The essential things are those they hold as individuals.
(d) The essential things are those they hold in common.

4. What does Chesterton label as the second problem of modern intellectualism?
(a) Brashness.
(b) Confidence.
(c) Fanciful thinking.
(d) Helplessness.

5. Why does Chesterton call suicide the greatest sin?
(a) Because, in the eyes of one man, it kills the whole world.
(b) Because it cuts off the future.
(c) Because it takes a life God had given.
(d) Because man is acting like God.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what does Chesterton call the most common problem with the world?

3. Who is Mr. Blatchford?

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

5. What do art and ecstasy recall to us, in Chesterton's words? (Chesterton 2000, p.g 212)

(see the answer key)

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