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

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

3. Why was the cardinal wearing different clothes the day before Jesus heals the blind girl?
(a) He changes clothes everyday.
(b) He was on vacation.
(c) His other clothes were dirty.
(d) He was performing his public duties.

4. How does the cardinal think Jesus would hinder his work?
(a) Focusing religious attention on himself.
(b) Protesting for religous freedom.
(c) Asking him too many questions.
(d) Trying to get him fired.

5. How does the cardinal''s face look?
(a) Puzzled
(b) Calm but judicious
(c) Withered
(d) Ageless

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the guards do with the prisoner?

2. What characters from "The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell" is referenced in Ivan's "Literary" Preface.

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

4. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus rejects in the wilderness?

5. Who is Ivan talking about when he says, "He comes on the scene in my poem, but He says nothing, only appears and passes on"?

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