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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What part of the scene in front of the cathedral does the cardinal witness?
(a) A girl coming back to life.
(b) Jesus appearing.
(c) A man asking to be healed.
(d) A man's sight being restored.

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. What is a "Literary Preface," in the case of this story?
(a) An introduction referencing stories with similar aspects.
(b) A preface explaining what literature is.
(c) A introduction explaining why the subsequent story is literature.
(d) A well-written introduction.

4. Who is the first person Jesus helps in the crowd?
(a) A condmened man.
(b) A blind man.
(c) The Inquisitor.
(d) A dead girl.

5. What characters from "The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell" is referenced in Ivan's "Literary" Preface.
(a) St. Peter.
(b) Dante.
(c) The devil.
(d) God.

6. What prompts the woman of the dead child to ask Jesus for help?
(a) She doesn't ask.
(b) The priest tells her to.
(c) She sees him from afar.
(d) The crowd tells her to.

7. What does Ivan mean when he says, "fifteen centuries since man has ceased to see signs from heaven"?
(a) Man is no longer in touch with spirituality.
(b) Miracles can no longer occur.
(c) The church has lost proof that Jesus existed.
(d) It has been 15 centuries since Jesus walked the earth.

8. In the Inquisition, who controlled penances?
(a) God.
(b) Jesus.
(c) A jury.
(d) The cardinal.

9. How does Ivan feel about the part in his poem where the prisoner first appears?
(a) He would like to refine it more.
(b) He thinks it is funny.
(c) He thinks it is very orignal.
(d) He thinks its one of the best parts.

10. Before he is arrested in the story, what doesn't Jesus do?
(a) Appear in Seville.
(b) Preach a sermon.
(c) Heal a child.
(d) Heal a blind man.

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

12. What is the cardinal wearing when he witnesses the crowd?
(a) A funeral suit.
(b) Gorgeous cardinal's robes.
(c) Uniform of the "holy guard."
(d) An old monk's cassock.

13. What play was performed in the Hotel de Ville of Paris in the reign of Louis XI in honor of the birth of the dauphin?
(a) Divine Comedy.
(b) Les Misérables.
(c) The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell.
(d) Le bon jugement de la tres sainte et gracieuse Vierge Marie.

14. What city does Ivan's story about the Grand Inquisitor take place in?
(a) Paris.
(b) St. Petersburg.
(c) Seville.
(d) Moscow.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor say happened to Jesus?

2. What does the inquisitor say man can not understand?

3. What does Ivan tell Alyosha is the chief part of the cardinal's speech?

4. What does the inquisitor add to his stating of the three questions?

5. What does the woman of the dead child do when asking Jesus for help?

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