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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Three Temptations of Christ.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cardinal wearing when he witnesses the crowd?
(a) Gorgeous cardinal's robes.
(b) A funeral suit.
(c) An old monk's cassock.
(d) Uniform of the "holy guard."

2. What does the cardinal say earth's thinkers couldn't do?
(a) Equal the force of the spirit's questions.
(b) Dicipher the true meaning of Jesus' temptation.
(c) Understand Jesus' true teaching.
(d) Understand the three questions.

3. What religious character used as a character in fiction does Ivan specifically reference in his "Literary" Preface?
(a) John the Baptist.
(b) The archangel Michael.
(c) Mohammed.
(d) Zeus.

4. What does the prisoner's visitor carry in his hand?
(a) A light.
(b) A Bible.
(c) Chains.
(d) Dinner.

5. In the Inquisition what are penances?
(a) Rewards for good deads
(b) Punishments for sin
(c) Lessons to be practiced
(d) Verses to memorize

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the people do when they first do when they recognize Jesus?

2. What city does Ivan's story about the Grand Inquisitor take place in?

3. Who is the prisoner's visitor?

4. When the people are silent before him what does the cardinal do?

5. How do the people react to the guards seizing the prisoner from their midst?

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