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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor predict will be the crowds reaction to Jesus' punishment?
(a) They will protest it.
(b) They will be indifferent.
(c) The will help burn him.
(d) The will reluctantly accept it.

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

3. What does the cardinal say earth's thinkers couldn't do?
(a) Equal the force of the spirit's questions.
(b) Understand Jesus' true teaching.
(c) Understand the three questions.
(d) Dicipher the true meaning of Jesus' temptation.

4. How does the cardinal''s face look?
(a) Calm but judicious
(b) Ageless
(c) Withered
(d) Puzzled

5. What religious historical event, "in the north of Germany" is called, "a terrible new heresy."
(a) The Protestant reformation.
(b) The Crusades.
(c) The Spanish Inquisition.
(d) The Auto de Fe.

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

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

8. Where do the guards take the prisoner?
(a) To the cardinal's chamber.
(b) To the prison.
(c) To a secret location outside of town.
(d) To the cathedral.

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Why does the crowd tremble in obedience to the cardinal?
(a) They know he is powerful.
(b) He tells the guards to arrest them.
(c) They hope he will reward them.
(d) He orders them on their knees.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor say happened in the wilderness?

2. What does the inquisitor ask the prisoner to judge?

3. Who isn't traveling with the cardinal?

4. Why does Ivan say the character "Our Lady" falls before the throne of God and beg?

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

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