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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following does Chesterton find striking about the story and teachings of Jesus?
(a) The intuitiveness.
(b) The order in which they come.
(c) All of these.
(d) The suggestion that he has not really come to teach.

2. Which of the following does Chesterton say is a crucial element of the Christmas story?
(a) The stoic presence and faith of the father.
(b) None of these.
(c) The absence of authority.
(d) The presence of the enemy.

3. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?
(a) A pattern.
(b) A picture.
(c) A philosophy.
(d) A mythology.

4. What does Chesterton say started to infect Rome and weaken her moral standing?
(a) Sensuality from Greece.
(b) The worship of demons.
(c) Laziness.
(d) Desire for wealth.

5. What does Chesterton say God provided in the story of Jesus Christ?
(a) A model for redemption.
(b) Guilt of sin.
(c) The ultimate story.
(d) Martyrdom.

6. How does Chesterton describe Asia?
(a) Fortuitous.
(b) Changeless.
(c) Heartless.
(d) Hollow.

7. According to Chesterton, what are the very important images upon which Christ founded the church?
(a) A beacon of light and an eternal father.
(b) A key and Peter as a rock.
(c) A rock and a risen God.
(d) A new world and a key.

8. What does Chesterton see in the sophisticated use of language in the Gospels?
(a) Careful planning of the Gospels.
(b) That Christ had formal schooling.
(c) The wisdom of those who assembled the Gospels.
(d) A subtle and superior mind.

9. What kind of paganism does Chesterton say they practiced in Rome?
(a) The worst kind.
(b) The best kind.
(c) The kind that is more human than godly.
(d) The forgotten kind.

10. What format does Chesterton present his closing statements in?
(a) Question and answers.
(b) A bulleted list.
(c) A statement with supporting details.
(d) A short story.

11. According to Chesterton, what was Rome?
(a) Necessary for the arrival of Christ.
(b) A lone beacon in an age of darkness.
(c) The end of paganism.
(d) The pinnacle of man's ability on earth without God.

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

13. What practice does Chesterton say that Christ started by his teachings?
(a) The exaltation of childhood.
(b) Subservience to an all powerful God.
(c) The mixing of religion and revolution.
(d) All of these.

14. What popular belief about the New Testament does Chesterton refute?
(a) That the books of the New Testament are contradictory.
(b) That the scriptures need interpretation.
(c) That Jesus was apolitical.
(d) That Jesus was a merciful and humane lover of humanity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say are the most realistic descriptions in the New Testament?

2. What does Chesterton claim the Christian church is not and never has been?

3. What does Chesterton bring up as a strange part of the story of the New Testament?

4. Which of the following does Chesterton say Christendom brought to the world?

5. What does Chesterton insist is a common error?

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