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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 statement does Chesterton make about Wells's outline of the world?
(a) It is a fascinating disquisition on history.
(b) All of these answers.
(c) It's proportions are wrong.
(d) It is only wrong as an outline.

2. What sentiment does Chesterton says pervades the ideologies of the far east?
(a) The spirit of repetition and recurrence.
(b) The need for social order.
(c) Spirituality through physical beauty.
(d) Focus on the self.

3. According to Chesterton, how do civilization and barbarism interact?
(a) They return in cycles.
(b) They have always existed side-by-side.
(c) Civilization is a reaction to barbarism.
(d) None of these.

4. What does Chesterton intend his concluding chapter to be?
(a) The culmination of his arguments.
(b) An alternate point of view.
(c) His final argument of position.
(d) A summary and outline of history.

5. What is Chesterton's dead dog in a river metaphor intending to convey?
(a) None of these answers.
(b) A dead thing can look alive when it goes downstream, but only live things swim upstream.
(c) The world (the river) cannot always discern between dead things and live ones.
(d) Dead things can travel far after death.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Chesterton say men fight?

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

3. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?

4. Which of the following is a statement that Chesterton makes?

5. What religious activity does Chesterton align with Carthage?

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