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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 was the cardinal doing the day before the prisoner is arrested?
(a) Training bishops for service.
(b) Presiding over the auto de fe.
(c) Researching scripture.
(d) On a holiday.

2. Where is the cardinal when he sees the crowd?
(a) Coming out of the church.
(b) Walking by the Seville Cathedral.
(c) Across from the market.
(d) In his house.

3. What does Alyosha ask Ivan about his story?
(a) Asks him to explain something
(b) Asks what inspired it.
(c) Asks Ivan why he wrote it.
(d) He asks him to repeat someting.

4. Who will finish the new Tower of Babel?
(a) No one.
(b) The great scientists and thinkers.
(c) The church.
(d) Jesus.

5. How does the cardinal say Jesus responded to the first question from the spirit?
(a) Saying man lives not by bread alone.
(b) Calmly answering no.
(c) Telling the spirt it is wrong.
(d) Ignoring the question.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who does Ivan NOT say was present at the auto de fe the day before?

3. 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"?

4. How does the crowd respond to the prisoner's arrest?

5. What does the cardinal say earth's thinkers couldn't do?

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