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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. How does Bernard Shaw speak of miracles?
(a) With disbelief.
(b) With contempt.
(c) With awe.
(d) With admiration.

2. According to Chesterton, what keeps a man sane?
(a) God.
(b) Mysticism.
(c) Reason.
(d) Religion.

3. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?
(a) Poe.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Cowper.
(d) Dryden.

4. How does Chesterton define tradition in political terms?
(a) Allowing one's ancestors to vote.
(b) Thinking of one's ancestors as kings.
(c) Defining the past as an oligarchy.
(d) Defining the past as a democracy that is long gone.

5. What does Chesterton suspect that God suppressed while he walked on earth
(a) His hurt.
(b) His mirth.
(c) His anger.
(d) His joy.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, most things are allied with oppression. What is the one area where he sees a line past which oppression has no effect?

2. In Chesterton's example of a man's interaction with the tiger, what does evolution not tell the man?

3. In Chapter One, what has Christianity named the mixture of the well-known and the unknown?

4. According to Chesterton, when is a disease beautiful?

5. In the middle of Chapter One, why does Chesterton say this book is a joke on him?

(see the answer key)

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