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

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

3. How does the crowd respond to the prisoner's arrest?
(a) They cheer the cardinal.
(b) They bow down to the cardinal.
(c) The protest.
(d) The try to free him.

4. Why does the grand inquisitor ask the prisoner to imagine the questions were forgotten?
(a) So he could accept new ones.
(b) So he could imagine their recreation.
(c) So he could invent better ones.
(d) So he would eventually forget them.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What doesn't the crowd do when they see Jesus perform two miracles?

2. What does Ivan tell Alyosha is the chief part of the cardinal's speech?

3. Where is the prison?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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