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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What reason does Chesterton give for the idea that love craves personality?
2. In general, what does Chesterton say is a liberal clergyman's attitude toward miracles?
3. Why, according to Christianity, can passions be free?
4. At the beginning of Chapter VIII, the Romance of Orthodoxy, what does Chesterton name as the cause for busyness in modern society?
5. What is Chesterton's stated goal for Chapter VIII, The Romance of Orthodoxy?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. Why is it better to be a progressive, according to Chesterton's understanding of the term? Why should man rebel against the new rather than against the old?
3. What is the first time that Chesterton felt he had stumbled onto a path that was familiar to some? How did Christianity mirror his own thoughts?
4. How does Chesterton explain pantheism's relation to wonder? What is the primary difference between pantheism and action?
5. What are the pagan and Christian view of virtue? What is Chesterton's view of them?
6. Christianity holds that any man who depends on a luxurious life is fallen and corrupt. What effect does this belief have on the believer, according to Chesterton?
7. What is the common view of Christianity and Buddhism, according to Chesterton? How are they similar and dissimilar? What is Chesterton's opinion of their differences?
8. How does Chesterton explain the modern view of miracles? Is this view contradictory?
9. Chesterton says that the primary evil with the pessimist is that he does not love what he chastises. How is this true?
10. Near the beginning of Chapter VII, The Eternal Revolution, Chesterton makes an argument concerning superiority. What is this argument? Does he satisfy the question fully?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why is the worship of the god within the worst religion, according to Chesterton? How does a worshiper of the god within regard the rest of the world? What is the endpoint of this religion?
Essay Topic 2
What is the mindset of the madman? How does it differ from a sane man and how is it similar to a materialist? What is Chesterton's answer to this mindset? Does this answer take into account all aspects of the mindset?
Essay Topic 3
How does Christianity answer illogical questions in the world? Do you think these answers are valid? Why was Chesterton puzzled at these answers, and how did it lead him to question atheism?
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