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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 does Chesterton say is the simplest truth about mankind?
(a) Mankind is the only religious being.
(b) Mankind is made in the image of God.
(c) Mankind is a very strange being.
(d) Mankind is a microcosm of the universe.

2. What does Chesterton take as evidence that evolution is flawed as a way to define the origins of man?
(a) The missing link.
(b) The fact that mankind is apparently not evolving now.
(c) None of these.
(d) The changing nature of the theories.

3. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?
(a) It gives mankind divine responsibility.
(b) It teaches faith.
(c) None of these.
(d) It has altered human nature.

4. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?
(a) Symbolic of the time.
(b) Unavoidable.
(c) An interruption in his teaching.
(d) Inconsequential.

5. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?
(a) Through the amalgamation of other pagan religions.
(b) Dissention about the details of the one God create different versions of what was originally just one.
(c) Mankind fears the largeness of a single god and so creates others.
(d) None of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?

2. Chesterton's list of great influential philosophers includes which of the following?

3. In Part I, Chapter VII, what new thing does Chesterton say we need?

4. What does Chesterton say has been done too much to mythologies of the world?

5. What does Chesterton think seeing mankind correctly will accomplish?

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