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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 author's work doesn't Ivan specifically reference in his "Literary" Preface?
(a) Tyutchev.
(b) Victor Hugo.
(c) Dostoevsky.
(d) Dante.

2. What does the inquisitor ask the prisoner to judge?
(a) If the cardinal had sinned.
(b) If the inquisitor was right to judge him.
(c) The cardinal's holliness.
(d) If the spirit who questioned him was right.

3. Where is the prison?
(a) Near the market.
(b) In the basement of the catherdral.
(c) Outside of town.
(d) In the palace.

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

5. What do the people do when they first do when they recognize Jesus?
(a) Ask him to heal them.
(b) Crowd around him.
(c) Fall at his feet.
(d) Run away.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides in the works specifically mentioned, where does Ivan say that Christian religious figures appear?

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

3. Why were the "fires lighted" in the Inquisition?

4. What part of the scene in front of the cathedral does the cardinal witness?

5. What character is speaking when the story begins?

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