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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What difference does Chesterton assert between the antiquity of Egypt and Babylon on one hand and the antiquity of China on the other?
(a) The refinement of the Chinese culture sets it apart from the others.
(b) Egypt and Babylon are part of his cultural tradition.
(c) Egypt and Babylon are linked to biblical places.
(d) Egypt and Babylon are both fallen cultures.

3. What does Chesterton say of the dark side of paganism or mythology?
(a) It is less poetical than the light side.
(b) They have a feeling of no nonsense about them.
(c) All of these.
(d) It is more practical than the light side.

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

5. What form of humanity does Chesterton claim is the unit of the state, or the cell that makes up the formation?
(a) Family.
(b) Tribes.
(c) Male lineage.
(d) Motherhood.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say of the more advanced non-western cultures?

2. According to Chesterton, how much did the philosophies of the great thinkers like Aristotle influence the religious spirit of the time?

3. What does Chesterton say is important when viewing mankind?

4. What does Chesterton attempt to prove by the universality of clothes?

5. If men were like other animals, what does Chesterton argue that we should see?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how and why, according to Chesterton, the pace at which things move changes our perception of them.

2. Explain the phrase from the introduction, "...The moment we are really impartial about it, we know why people are partial to it."

3. Explain how, according to Chesterton, monotheistic religion becomes polytheistic.

4. What parallel does Chesterton make between social structure and cannibalism? Explain.

5. Explain how Chesterton uses Egypt and Babylon to further his arguments.

6. According to Chesterton, how accurate is H. G. Wells's concept of the "Old Man"?

7. What concept regarding civilization and barbarism throughout history does Chesterton refute? What does he say?

8. What does Chesterton mean when he refers to the "demons"?

9. How does Chesterton refute the idea that religion came from people's experiences with authority, dreams, and the cycles of life?

10. How well does Chesterton think science is explaining the origins of mankind? Why?

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