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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX: Authority and the Adventurer.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In fairy tales and fiction, what change does Chesterton name that makes the stories monotonous?
(a) The hero is now abnormal and his adventures are not surprising.
(b) The hero is boring and not surprised by the adventures.
(c) There is no original model for a hero.
(d) The hero has no precedent for resolution to the conflict.

2. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?
(a) By teaching tradition to their children.
(b) By safe-guarding their culture.
(c) By safe-guarding their religion.
(d) By consciously working out a moral code.

3. According to Chesterton, what effect does the moralists' attitude have on the cosmos?
(a) There can never be anything interesting.
(b) There are exciting possibilities.
(c) God has no part in the cosmos or its creation.
(d) Fairy tales cannot explain the cosmos.

4. Why does Chesterton call courage a contradiction?
(a) It can only be proven in life-threatening circumstances.
(b) The person most wanting to live is the person willing to die.
(c) It has no meaning in everyday life.
(d) Only the meek person can show courage.

5. Why are people who admire Christianity, but do not believe it, uncomfortable?
(a) Christianity has only a few answers for their problems.
(b) Christianity was valid in the past but may not continue to be valid.
(c) Christianity is elaborately right.
(d) Christianity has philosophical answers but not realistic answers.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?

2. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?

3. Why did Chesterton find his accumulation of small facts powerful?

4. In a person's pursuit for truth, what might happen, according to Chesterton?

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

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