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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 does Chesterton say is the one great startling statement uttered by man since he was able to make statements?
(a) That he is unique.
(b) The the world had a creator.
(c) God was all powerful.
(d) That the creator of the world visited his world in person.

2. What great paradox rests at the heart of Christianity?
(a) God had to die to influence the world.
(b) On earth, God was subject to the power of humans.
(c) The concept of an all powerful God being as helpless as an infant.
(d) God asks for faith when he could universally create it.

3. What does Chesterton call the death of Jesus?
(a) The objective of his mission.
(b) The act of greatest consequence.
(c) Timeless.
(d) Preordained.

4. According to Chesterton, what social point does divinity being born as an outcast make?
(a) God can rise up from the lowest point.
(b) Individuals are important.
(c) None of these.
(d) God is not allied with any government or state.

5. What literary technique does Chesterton admire in the Gospels?
(a) A story within a story.
(b) Comparative degrees.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Parallel plots.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say is one of the fundamental differences in growing up Christian?

2. Which of the following does Chesterton say is the most puzzling and terrifying?

3. What does Chesterton make a point of making clear about the manger where Christ was born?

4. Which of the following is a way in which Chesterton describes faith?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain Chesterton's view on the role of the mother in the Christmas story.

2. What does Chesterton mean or reference when he says that on Good Friday the best things in the world were at their worst?

3. Explain what Chesterton means when he says that Asia is old but Europe is born again.

4. How does Chesterton connect Christ's intellectual ability to his claim of divinity?

5. What does Chesterton mean when he refers to the Church's ability to rise again?

6. What reason does Chesterton give for presenting the last chapter in this fashion?

7. How much have historical events aided or been obstacles to the continuation of the Church?

8. Explain the logic behind Chesterton's statement, "If the ecclesiastical and dogmatic system is as old as the Pentecost then it is as old as Christmas."

9. Explain Chesterton's statement, "I do not believe that mythology must begin with eroticism. But I do believe that mythology must end in it." To what was he referring?

10. What was the religious state of Rome when Christ appeared?

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