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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, what is the problem with moving slowly toward justice?
(a) A man will only be able to act on old ideas.
(b) It does not allow a man to move swiftly toward a better state of things.
(c) People cannot make just decisions in a large amount of time.
(d) The definition of justice changes too often in that time.

3. 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?
(a) Religion.
(b) Orthodoxy.
(c) Love.
(d) Politics.

4. 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.

5. How does Chesterton want joy and anger to interact?
(a) In opposition, never coming close.
(b) In opposition, sharpening each other into greater fierceness.
(c) Coming close enough to affect each other.
(d) Coming together to soften each other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is the result of believing that progress is a natural, predictable happening?

2. What is Chesterton's second criterion for progress?

3. How do St. Francis of Assisi and George Herbert think of Nature?

4. After studying the attacks on Christianity, what did Chesterton conclude?

5. What oddity does Chesterton find in the modern world?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?

2. How do Eastern and Western religions differ in their understanding of seclusion in worship, according to Chesterton? How does this affect their sense of community?

3. Why did Chesterton begin to question the attacks on Christianity? What did he find as he questioned?

4. As Chesterton shows in Chapter VI, The Paradoxes of Christianity, what is Christianity's view of man? How can it hold to this argument?

5. Why are liberals not free thinkers? What argument is made in Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy, about confusion within language?

6. At the end of Chapter V, The Flag of the World, what transformation does Chesterton describe? How did the transformation address his question of optimism and pessimism?

7. Why, according to Chesterton, do modern thinkers find it advantageous to modernity to change the vision of heaven constantly? What effect does this have on man's mind?

8. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?

9. As Chesterton argues, why does love seek individuality and personality? Is this true only in relation to man or also in relation to God?

10. If Nature does improve man through impersonal means, as Chesterton claims, what must happen? What is happening in reality?

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