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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the Inquisition what are penances?
(a) Rewards for good deads
(b) Punishments for sin
(c) Verses to memorize
(d) Lessons to be practiced

2. What is the cardinal's immediate reaction upon witnessing the scene outside the Cathedral?
(a) He orders a man arrested.
(b) He smiles mischeviously.
(c) He calls for his guards.
(d) His face darkens and his eyebrows tense.

3. When the people are silent before him what does the cardinal do?
(a) Explain his actions.
(b) Bless them.
(c) Demand their obedience.
(d) Preach a sermon.

4. Why does the cardinal think Jesus' appearance will harm humanity?
(a) Healing people delays their journey to heaven.
(b) Jesus' teachings are not true.
(c) Anything Jesus does will be seen as a miracle, and will rob people of their ability to choose to follow him.
(d) Jesus will punish the sinners.

5. How does the blind man get Jesus to heal him?
(a) He touches Jesus clothes.
(b) Jesus presses is hand to his eyes.
(c) He asks Jesus.
(d) He grabs Jesus hand.

6. What does the inquisitor say couldn't be clear at the time of the questions?
(a) Their truth.
(b) Their importance.
(c) How they would be answered.
(d) Their prophetic nature.

7. What does the cardinal do when he repeats the spirit's questions?
(a) He quotes the bible.
(b) He poses it to the prisoner.
(c) He puts it into he own words.
(d) He makes a joke of it.

8. Besides in the works specifically mentioned, where does Ivan say that Christian religious figures appear?
(a) Scattered legends.
(b) Alyosha's Dreams.
(c) Mathematics.
(d) Star Constellations.

9. How old is the cardinal?
(a) Slighty over eighty.
(b) Almost ninety.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Seventy-nine.

10. What does the inquisitor say man can not understand?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Evil.
(c) Beauty.
(d) Truth.

11. How does Ivan describe the night in Seville?
(a) Fearful and mysterious.
(b) Burning and breathless.
(c) Silent and shadowy.
(d) Cool and windy.

12. According to Ivan, how does God explain his treatment of sinners in "The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell"?
(a) He asks how it would be possible to forgive his son's tormentors.
(b) He says sinners are evil and deserve punishment.
(c) He explains how punishment teachers people to do good.
(d) He asks what she would do if she were him.

13. Why is Jesus' appearance deemed a visit?
(a) It is not his final return.
(b) It is a vacation.
(c) He comes to Spain.
(d) It is not really him.

14. Why does Ivan say, "there was nothing left but faith in what the heart doth say."
(a) People stopped trusting their feelings.
(b) The population stopped believing in Jesus.
(c) Without Jesus' physical presence, believer's needed to trust their hearts.
(d) The population discarded science and replaced it with philosophy.

15. What does Ivan tell Alyosha is the chief part of the cardinal's speech?
(a) Why he wants the prisoner killed.
(b) Why he thinks the prisoner is Jesus.
(c) Why he tells the prisoner he was warned.
(d) Why he asks the prisoner why he has come.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the prison?

2. Who is the character mentioned from "Le bon jugement de la tres sainte et gracieuse Vierge Marie," when Ivan references this play?

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

4. What does the crowd do after they see Jesus perform healing?

5. Who isn't traveling with the cardinal?

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