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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Conclusion: The Summary of This Book and Appendices.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?
(a) They had more fanciful and less dark mythologies.
(b) They had stricter moral rules of relgious conduct.
(c) They were more enlightened and closer to monotheism.
(d) They were more barbaric and their religion darker.
2. What personage from Troy does Chesterton say created an archetype and impacted history?
(a) Hector.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Helen.
3. Which of the following does Chesterton say was unheard of prior to Christendom?
(a) A holy land.
(b) None of these answers.
(c) Church militants.
(d) Martyrdom.
4. What is Chesterton's dead dog in a river metaphor intending to convey?
(a) Dead things can travel far after death.
(b) A dead thing can look alive when it goes downstream, but only live things swim upstream.
(c) None of these answers.
(d) The world (the river) cannot always discern between dead things and live ones.
5. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?
(a) Male lineage.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Motherhood.
(d) Family.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Chesterton state that mankind recognized from the very beginning?
2. In what way does Chesterton say the philosophers gained great influence?
3. What does Chesterton claim the Christian church is not and never has been?
4. What support does Egypt give to Chesterton's argument?
5. What kind of paganism does Chesterton say they practiced in Rome?
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