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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 V: The Escape from Paganism.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?
(a) Art is the signature of man.
(b) Cave men were closer to the beasts around them.
(c) Cave men were child-like.
(d) All of these.

2. What does Chesterton remark that Jesus never states a position against?
(a) Violence.
(b) Lawlessness.
(c) War.
(d) Hate.

3. What does Chesterton refer to as a cornerstone of humanity?
(a) The Old Testament.
(b) The book of Job.
(c) Christianity.
(d) Monotheism.

4. What does Chesterton say about the teachings of Christ?
(a) They did not fit in his own time any better than they do now.
(b) None of these.
(c) They are paradoxes.
(d) They are not meant to be accomplished.

5. How does Chesterton characterize the approach of Hannibal to Rome?
(a) Riding on the glory of the gods.
(b) Like a hot knife slicing through the resistance.
(c) Like the reckoning for unholiness.
(d) Like a dark supernatural power.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does Chesterton give for acts of cannibalism?

2. What importance does Chesterton give to the pace at which things go?

3. What does Chesterton say is the main fault with comparing religions?

4. What two important elements from the past did the arrival of Christ unite, according to Chesterton?

5. What does Chesterton say is missing from the popular depiction of prehistory?

(see the answer key)

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