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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Chesterton's example of the blue world explain modernity's attitude toward progress?
(a) Man can begin with the desire for a blue world but should not end there.
(b) If a man always works toward a blue world, he will eventually succeed.
(c) Man must not be sidetracked onto changing every aspect of his world.
(d) Man's desire for a blue world is only illusory.

2. What is Chesterton's stated purpose in Chapter VI, the Paradoxes of Christianity
(a) To show that Christianity cannot account for irregularities.
(b) To show that Christianity's irregularities are matched in its truths.
(c) To show that Christianity has an answer for every problem.
(d) To show that Christianity is fully logical.

3. What definition does Chesterton find BEST for optimist and pessimist?
(a) An optimist thinks everything right but the pessimist, while the pessimist thinks everything wrong but himself.
(b) An optimist looks after your eyes, while a pessimist looks after your feet.
(c) An optimist sees the world as the best it can be, while the pessimist sees the world as the worst it can be.
(d) An optimist has nothing but hope, while the pessimist has everything but hope.

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

5. How does the Christian idea of a transcendent God manifest itself in a frightening way?
(a) God sometimes disappears and cannot be found again.
(b) God is so different from man that the two cannot relate.
(c) God sometimes disappears and must be sought.
(d) God is so far above man that he can never be reached.

6. What does Chesterton call "the most difficult and interesting part of the mental process" that he reached? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 247)
(a) The fact that love and hate must burn equally strong.
(b) The problem of balance which is presented in the world.
(c) The problem of dealing with human passions.
(d) The fact that love and hate must soften each other.

7. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?
(a) Bustle.
(b) Fast-paced life.
(c) Stress.
(d) Laziness.

8. In determining his criteria for progress, what does Chesterton discover?
(a) Christianity could not answer any of his questions.
(b) Christianity arrived there first.
(c) Buddhism shed some light on his questions.
(d) Christianity could lead him to the answers.

9. Why did a typical nineteenth-century man not believe in Christ's resurrection, according to Chesterton?
(a) His materialism did not allow it.
(b) His scientific mind told him it was impossible.
(c) His liberal Christianity did not allow it.
(d) He didn't want to acknowledge Christ's divinity.

10. In the Christian's view, why does a man's soul provide enough outlet for both the optimist and the pessimist?
(a) Both passions are allowed free reign.
(b) He has hope for a heavenly future but fear for an earthly one.
(c) He is exalted as God's creation and humbled as a sinner.
(d) He now has reason to claim brotherhood with Christ.

11. Why did the writings of skeptics and evolutionists push Chesterton toward Christianity?
(a) He stopped believing the skeptics and evolutionists.
(b) Traces of Christianity were found in the writings.
(c) He formulated responses to their arguments.
(d) He was not convinced by their arguments.

12. Why did the serious changes in our political outlook occur at the beginning of the nineteenth century rather than at the end?
(a) At the beginning, intellectualism was more highly encouraged.
(b) At the end, men began to believe wholeheartedly in certain things.
(c) At the beginning, men still believed fixedly in certain things.
(d) At the end, men were caught up in religious questions.

13. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
(a) To introduce the idea of Christian romance.
(b) To point out that liberal thinking is actually illiberal.
(c) To question the sentimental value of Christianity.
(d) To point out the paradoxes of Christianity.

14. Why does Chesterton say that a man is bewildered when asked to summarize his belief in something?
(a) If everything he knows supports that belief.
(b) If he has no evidence for his belief other than his desire to believe.
(c) If he has only scattered evidence for that belief.
(d) If he must defend it to people who oppose him.

15. In Chesterton's image, how did he feel once his religious opinion changed? (Chesterton 2000, pg. 235)
(a) The land was lit up even back to his childhood.
(b) The army had fled before the light of his revelation.
(c) The dragon had been conquered.
(d) Fairyland was no longer important to his thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Chesterton, how did men gain morality?

2. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?

3. What is the thesis of Mrs. Besant's book?

4. According to Chesterton, what happens when a man worships physical nature?

5. Who does Chesterton name as believers in the Inner Light?

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