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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What religious character used as a character in fiction does Ivan NOT reference in his "Literary" Preface?
(a) Abraham.
(b) Virgin Mary.
(c) God.
(d) The Archangel Michael.

4. Who isn't traveling with the cardinal?
(a) His assistants.
(b) Slaves.
(c) The "holy guard."
(d) The queen.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus rejects in the wilderness?

2. In the Inquisition what are penances?

3. What does Ivan mean when he says, "fifteen centuries since man has ceased to see signs from heaven"?

4. Who is traveling with the cardinal?

5. Why does the grand inquisitor ask the prisoner to imagine the questions were forgotten?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jesus appear at the specific time and place in Spain?

2. Who is the spirit that talks with Jesus in the wilderness?

3. Why does Ivan repeatedly mention Dante in his preface?

4. What does the grand inquisitor believe is most important about Jesus' temptation?

5. What does the cardinal do once he is shut in the room with the prisoner?

6. What is the subject of Ivan's Literary Preface?

7. Why does the crowd flock to Jesus?

8. Why does Ivan suggest some people's faith in Jesus become stronger?

9. How does the little girl feel when she comes back to life?

10. Why does God find it hard to spare the sinners in hell despite Our Lady's pleas for mercy?

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