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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Ivan and Alyosha Converse.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does the grand inquisitor justify people turning their backs?
(a) He knows they are afraid of freedom.
(b) He says he would have done the same.
(c) He points at advances in science.
(d) His says misery increased and Christ was not around.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus wishes from people?

2. What does the cardinal say man will do for earthly bread?

3. What is like "lightning flashing from east to west"?

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

5. What doesn't Alyosha believe?

(see the answer key)

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