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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Enter the Grand Inquisitor.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What part of the scene in front of the cathedral does the cardinal witness?
(a) A girl coming back to life.
(b) Jesus appearing.
(c) A man's sight being restored.
(d) A man asking to be healed.

3. Where do the guards take the prisoner?
(a) To the cathedral.
(b) To the cardinal's chamber.
(c) To a secret location outside of town.
(d) To the prison.

4. Who does Ivan NOT say was present at the auto de fe the day before?
(a) The knights.
(b) The pope.
(c) The king.
(d) The cardinals.

5. How does Ivan describe the prison?
(a) Gloomy.
(b) Frightening.
(c) Impenetrable.
(d) Modern.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious character used as a character in fiction does Ivan specifically reference in his "Literary" Preface?

2. Who isn't present in the girl's funeral?

3. What religious historical event, "in the north of Germany" is called, "a terrible new heresy."

4. In the Inquisition what are penances?

5. When does Ivan say religiously themed plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, stopped being performed in Moscow?

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