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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 II: The Riddles of the Gospel.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what description of the life of the cave-man does Chesterton especially object?
(a) The suggested violence of men to women.
(b) Their proximity to apes.
(c) All of these.
(d) Their pagan worship.

2. What does Chesterton insist is a common error?
(a) To not give Romans their due.
(b) To oversimply the end of Rome.
(c) To think that things would have gone on as they had always been.
(d) To insist on the smallness of the Mediterranean world in which all of this occurred.

3. What does Chesterton say should not be done with mythologies?
(a) Study them scientifically.
(b) See them as merely fanciful stories.
(c) Try to relate to them.
(d) Read them as representative of religion.

4. According to Chesterton, how do mythologies differ from religion?
(a) Myths are descriptive while religion is prescriptive.
(b) Only religion offers a moral edict.
(c) The way a portrait differs from a person.
(d) Only one is understandable as truth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious activity does Chesterton align with Carthage?

2. According to Chesterton, how much did the philosophies of the great thinkers like Aristotle influence the religious spirit of the time?

3. Which of the following statements does Chesterton say about early Christians?

4. Which of the following does Chesterton say of myths?

5. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?

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