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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the grand inquisitor say the prisoner talked to in the wilderness?
(a) A spirit.
(b) The people of Seville.
(c) Travelers on the road.
(d) Animals.

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

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

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

6. What does the prisoner do to be recognized by the people?
(a) He appears unobserved.
(b) He holds out his hands.
(c) He heals a blind man.
(d) He walks into a crowd.

7. Who isn't present in the girl's funeral?
(a) The crowd.
(b) The priest.
(c) Jesus.
(d) The girl's sister.

8. What does the grand inquisitor think is important about the Jesus' encounter with the spirit?
(a) Jesus' response.
(b) The three questions.
(c) The spirit's reaction.
(d) The energy created by it.

9. How does the prisoner look at the grand inquisitor when he is being accused in his cell?
(a) Indifferently.
(b) Sadly.
(c) Meekly.
(d) Angrily.

10. How does Ivan describe the prison?
(a) Frightening.
(b) Modern.
(c) Gloomy.
(d) Impenetrable.

11. How does the cardinal think the prisoner would hinder his work?
(a) Starting a separate inquisition.
(b) Runing for office.
(c) Adding more judges and courts.
(d) Stopping the inquisition.

12. Why were the "fires lighted" in the Inquisition?
(a) To provide light every night for the proceedings.
(b) To warm the court rooms.
(c) To cook feasts given in honor of God.
(d) To burn condemned people alive.

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

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

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What religious character used as a character in fiction does Ivan specifically reference in his "Literary" Preface?

2. What author's work does Ivan specifically reference in his "Literary" Preface?

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. What does the grand inquisitor say happened to Jesus?

5. Who is the prisoner's visitor?

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