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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What parallel does Chesterton draw with the uniqueness of the Christian church?
(a) The uniqueness of the situation of the Jewish people.
(b) The uniqueness of fire compared to painted fire.
(c) The uniqueness and variation inherent to fine wine.
(d) The difference between a fine race horse and a donkey.

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

3. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?
(a) They had more fanciful and less dark mythologies.
(b) They were more barbaric and their religion darker.
(c) They were more enlightened and closer to monotheism.
(d) They had stricter moral rules of relgious conduct.

4. What does Chesterton imply made the difference in the battle of Carthage and Rome?
(a) The prowess of their military commanders.
(b) The dedication of the soldiers.
(c) The financial backing.
(d) The nature of their religion.

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

6. According to Chesterton, how much did the philosophies of the great thinkers like Aristotle influence the religious spirit of the time?
(a) Not at all.
(b) They initiated conversation that changed the role of religion.
(c) The philosophers were seen as heretics and the religion gained fervor.
(d) The religion incorporated the principles of their philosophies.

7. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?
(a) Virtue in cave men.
(b) How ill designed mankind is to survive like a beast.
(c) The need for decoration and artistic expression.
(d) The concept of original sin.

8. What does Chesterton say about epochs of nomadism or matriarchy in history and prehistory?
(a) They were short lived aberrations from the natural family form.
(b) Men were the natural heads of families.
(c) The are indicative of tribal forms of civilization.
(d) None of them worked successfully because they no longer exist.

9. Despite the level of sincerity a myth might be understood, what does Chesterton say is still present?
(a) Skepticism.
(b) Fundamental belief.
(c) Superficiality.
(d) Reality and religious sentiment.

10. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about paganism?
(a) Paganism is used to explain human fears.
(b) That paganism naturally subsides in the face of Christianity.
(c) That even pagan religions incorporate the notion of one all powerful supreme being.
(d) That paganism is the root of all practice within Christianity.

11. What evidence does Chesterton find in the history of Babylonia?
(a) A society that has no evidence of being nomadic.
(b) Nomads who do not evolve into a more civilized state.
(c) Evidence to refute the commonly held notion of barbarism and civilization.
(d) All of these.

12. Which of the following is a point Chesterton makes regarding the government of early man?
(a) They had no widely spread form of government.
(b) We know nothing regarding their government.
(c) Their leaders were mystics.
(d) Their government was not headed by a leader like the "Old Man."

13. What example does Chesterton give about how the church must be viewed?
(a) With the wonder of somebody seeing it for the first time.
(b) With the detached impartiality of a martian.
(c) With the eyes of an anthropologist.
(d) From the daily experiences within it.

14. What does Chesterton say is the real rival to the the Church of Christ?
(a) Science.
(b) Professors.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Familiarity.

15. Why does Chesterton say men fight?
(a) For the love and protection of his home.
(b) For justice.
(c) To avoid fear and change.
(d) For the greater good.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to Chesterton, how does monotheism become polytheistic?

3. What sentiment does Chesterton says pervades the ideologies of the far east?

4. What does say Chesterton say would have been very different if the battle between Carthage and Rome were different?

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

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