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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: On the Man Called Christ, Chapter III: The Strangest Story in the World.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?
(a) The wisdom of those who assembled the Gospels.
(b) A subtle and superior mind.
(c) Careful planning of the Gospels.
(d) That Christ had formal schooling.

2. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) Parallel plots.
(b) A story within a story.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Comparative degrees.

3. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Helen.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hector.

4. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) Their leaders were mystics.
(b) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."
(c) We know nothing regarding their government.
(d) They had no widely spread form of government.

5. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?
(a) The exaltation of childhood.
(b) Subservience to an all powerful God.
(c) The mixing of religion and revolution.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say about the story of Good Friday?

2. Where does Chesterton say the history of Rome is best understood?

3. What two civilizations does Chesterton use for evidence against much of the belief in his time about cave men?

4. What does Chesterton say is the natural result of religion in the home?

5. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?

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