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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chesterton say would have happened if Christ had not come when he did?
(a) Pagan religion would have kept endlessly changing.
(b) There would have been a void that would have asphyxiated mankind.
(c) None of these.
(d) The world would have started worshipping demons.

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

3. To what does Chesterton compare early Christianity?
(a) A beacon of light in darkness.
(b) A virus.
(c) Labor pains.
(d) A tree that is rapidly full grown.

4. Which of the following is a statement Chesterton makes about early Christianity?
(a) That it evolved naturally out of an empire in decay.
(b) It flourished because of the times.
(c) It had every psychological disadvantage for success.
(d) Its rise could have been predicted.

5. What additional paradox does Chesterton see in the Christmas story?
(a) None of these.
(b) The human birth with the celestial marker.
(c) The light of God arriving in the dark.
(d) The importance and insignificance of the gathering.

6. What does Chesterton call the death of Socrates?
(a) Symbolic of the time.
(b) Unavoidable.
(c) Inconsequential.
(d) An interruption in his teaching.

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

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

9. When morality and faith in the gods was crumbling in Rome, what else does Chesterton say was crumbling?
(a) The hope for mankind.
(b) Intellectuality and philosophy.
(c) Curiosity.
(d) Desire for violence.

10. What does Chesterton say is unique about the Church Militant?
(a) Salvation.
(b) Willingness to die for religion.
(c) The change of power from state to religion.
(d) The goal of universal deliverance.

11. What does Chesterton say was the reaction of the populace to the rising Christian movement?
(a) Fear.
(b) Jealousy.
(c) Hate.
(d) Despair.

12. Which of the following does Chesterton say is the most puzzling and terrifying?
(a) Christ of the Church.
(b) Modern Christianity.
(c) Historical Christianity.
(d) The Gospels.

13. What does Chesterton say is the affect of the paradox of Christianity?
(a) It has altered human nature.
(b) It gives mankind divine responsibility.
(c) None of these.
(d) It teaches faith.

14. Which of the following does Chesterton NOT list as one of the five deaths of the faith?
(a) The end of the dark ages.
(b) The fall of Rome.
(c) The renaissance.
(d) The rise of Islam.

15. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?
(a) None of these.
(b) The three Marys.
(c) The moment when God had been forsaken of God.
(d) Christ rising from the grave.

Short Answer Questions

1. What emotions does Chesterton say a first time reader of the New Testament would experience?

2. What does Chesterton call Islam?

3. What does the intellectual distinction that Chesterton sees in Christ suggest to him?

4. How is the creed of Jesus like a key, according to Chesterton?

5. Among whom does Chesterton assert that claims of divinity are common?

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