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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ivan describe the night in Seville?
(a) Burning and breathless.
(b) Cool and windy.
(c) Silent and shadowy.
(d) Fearful and mysterious.

2. What is the "auto de fe"?
(a) A famous battle.
(b) The return of Jesus.
(c) A church holliday.
(d) Public ceremony of punishment.

3. Why does the grand inquisitor think man values more than bread?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Order.
(c) Love and happiness.
(d) Someone to worship.

4. Why does the cardinal say the clergy keeps silent about the true nature of their power?
(a) Out of love for humanity.
(b) To keep control.
(c) To protect the strong.
(d) To deceive the weak.

5. What does Ivan mean when he says, "fifteen centuries since man has ceased to see signs from heaven"?
(a) Miracles can no longer occur.
(b) Man is no longer in touch with spirituality.
(c) The church has lost proof that Jesus existed.
(d) It has been 15 centuries since Jesus walked the earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Inquisition what are penances?

2. What does the inquisitor ask the prisoner to judge?

3. How does Ivan feel about the part in his poem where the prisoner first appears?

4. Who will continue to suffer if the church becomes all powerful?

5. How does the inquisitor equate the clergy and Jesus himself?

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