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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part I: On the Creature Called Man, Chapter II: Professors and Prehistoric Men.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton label as the biggest weakness of science in trying to understand the origins of man?
(a) The inability to experiment or directly observe.
(b) The scientists.
(c) Theories that are sensational but untrue.
(d) None of these.

2. Chesterton claims the holy trinity is an upside version of what?
(a) Society.
(b) The family.
(c) Grandfather-Father-Son.
(d) The three original elements of religion.

3. What does Chesterton describe in the introduction as if being seen for the first time?
(a) St. Francis slaying the dragon.
(b) The church.
(c) A cathedral.
(d) A horse.

4. If man was once no more than an animal, what does does Chesterton say might be entertained?
(a) That he might return to be one again.
(b) Animals doing things in the providence of man.
(c) None of these.
(d) The intervention of God.

5. Which of the following is something Chesterton says future scientists will deduce from 20th Century initials carved in stone?
(a) All of these.
(b) The 20th Century had no religion.
(c) The 20th Century had no cursive or small letters.
(d) The 20th Century did not practice the art of sculpture.

Short Answer Questions

1. What statement is intuitively understood, according to Chesterton, regarding the cave paintings?

2. What aspect of the cave-man does Chesterton find greatly important?

3. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?

4. What commonality does Chesterton give to the three elements from which religion supposedly arose?

5. Which one of the following is NOT, according to Chesterton, one of the great mysteries?

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