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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the cardinal say man will do for earthly bread?
(a) Believe.
(b) Stop sinning.
(c) Anything.
(d) Be appeased.

2. What do the guards do with the prisoner?
(a) Ask him his name.
(b) Lock him in a cell.
(c) Feed him.
(d) Allow him to wash.

3. In the Inquisition, who controlled penances?
(a) God.
(b) A jury.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The cardinal.

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

5. What doesn't the inquisitor say is brought to together by the spirit's questions to Jesus?
(a) Contradictions of human nature.
(b) Fact and imagination.
(c) The history of mankind afterward.
(d) The people's philosophy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor say the church has done to Jesus' work?

2. Before he is arrested in the story, what doesn't Jesus do?

3. Why does the cardinal think people don't want freedom?

4. Who will finish the new Tower of Babel?

5. What does the grand inquisitor think people need in addition to life?

(see the answer key)

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