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

2. Which of the following is a trait Chesterton cites as being unique to Christianity?
(a) Direct contact with an all powerful deity.
(b) Political power.
(c) It's ability to rise again throughout the ages.
(d) Stories.

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

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

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the three distinct things that make up one in the Christmas story?
(a) A challenge and a fight.
(b) A philosophy larger than other philosophies.
(c) An omnipresent divinity.
(d) The human instinct for heaven as literal as home.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Chesterton say created the opportunity for opulence and moral degradation to enter into mainstream life in Rome?

2. What does Chesterton call mankind in his conclusion?

3. What abyss in the unity of the absolute does Chesterton reference?

4. What does Chesterton say the Catholic faith utilizes?

5. To the Romans, who were used to hearing about so many different sects and religions, what does Chesterton say was different when they heard about Christ?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Chesterton refute the common idea to label Christ as a man who was a great philosopher, or a social reformer, or a healer?

2. According to Chesterton what is the difference between the "Christ of the Church" and the "Christ of the Gospels"?

3. What importance does Chesterton assign to the "Merry Peasant"?

4. Describe the Europe that Chesterton says would exist if the world still lived in paganism.

5. Explain how Chesterton refutes the popular argument that Christ's teachings are dated because he was "a man of his time".

6. Explain how Chesterton comes to the conclusion that Christ was an intellectually apt and astute man?

7. 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?

8. Explain what Chesterton meant when he said the birth of Christ turned the universe inside out, or that the circumference had been turned into the center.

9. What important role does Herod play in the Christmas story as Chesterton sees it?

10. 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."

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