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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. What breaks Ivan's Narrative?
(a) Alyosha asks a question.
(b) He pauses to question Alyosha.
(c) He gets tired.
(d) Alyosha has to leave.

2. What is hiding the dead girl?
(a) The coffin lid.
(b) Shadows.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A veil.

3. When does Ivan say religiously themed plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, stopped being performed in Moscow?
(a) Before the time of Peter the Great.
(b) At the start of WWII.
(c) At the start of the Spanish Inquisition.
(d) Upon the return of Jesus.

4. What does the inquisitor add to his stating of the three questions?
(a) A quotation from scripture.
(b) A judgement about of man's nature.
(c) Ideas about modern science.
(d) More factual details.

5. Why did the grand inquisitor change his mind about Jesus teachings?
(a) He loved freedom of thought.
(b) He thought began to think Jesus.
(c) He wanted more power.
(d) He began to wonder if they were helpful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "Literary Preface," in the case of this story?

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

3. When the people are silent before him what does the cardinal do?

4. What does the inquisitor say will happen to the new Tower of Babel?

5. What is the cardinal wearing when he witnesses the crowd?

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