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

2. Why does Chesterton say that any discussion about the creation/sustaining principle in the world must be metaphorical?
(a) Because man cannot truly understand creation.
(b) Because it is necessarily verbal.
(c) Because man can never prove the principle.
(d) Because it relates to God.

3. According to Chesterton, what characteristics do madmen share with many respected teachers and scientists?
(a) Enlarged reason and small common sense.
(b) Narcissism and short-sightedness.
(c) Small reason and enlarged common sense.
(d) Spiritual confusion and materialistic thinking.

4. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?
(a) Christianity was full of logical problems.
(b) Attacks on Christianity were largely valid.
(c) Christianity must be very wrong or absolutely right.
(d) Christianity might actually be true.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?

2. According to Chesterton in Chapter Two, what is comparable to curing a madman?

3. Who does Chesterton name as the only great English poet to go mad?

4. As Chesterton explains, what mindset does a man have when he believes he is part of the living, breathing church?

5. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?

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