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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Second Temptation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What breaks Ivan's Narrative?
(a) Alyosha asks a question.
(b) He gets tired.
(c) He pauses to question Alyosha.
(d) Alyosha has to leave.

2. According to the grand inquisitor, How does the church use Jesus to deceive the people?
(a) They deny his existance.
(b) They say his teachings were their idea.
(c) They say that Jesus is still living.
(d) They ask to be worshipped as they were him.

3. Why were the "fires lighted" in the Inquisition?
(a) To burn condemned people alive.
(b) To warm the court rooms.
(c) To cook feasts given in honor of God.
(d) To provide light every night for the proceedings.

4. How does the cardinal think Jesus would hinder his work?
(a) Focusing religious attention on himself.
(b) Asking him too many questions.
(c) Protesting for religous freedom.
(d) Trying to get him fired.

5. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus rejects in the wilderness?
(a) The teachings of the church.
(b) The inquistion.
(c) Sin in man.
(d) His temptation by a spirt.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the cardinal do when he repeats the spirit's questions?

2. Why does the grand inquisitor ask the prisoner to imagine the questions were forgotten?

3. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus did to spirituality?

4. Why is there still doubt as to the truth of Jesus' divinity?

5. Where does Jesus stop to meet the mother of the dead child?

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