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

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

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

4. Where is the cardinal when he sees the crowd?
(a) Walking by the Seville Cathedral.
(b) Coming out of the church.
(c) Across from the market.
(d) In his house.

5. What is like "lightning flashing from east to west"?
(a) The wrath of God.
(b) Jesus' eyes.
(c) The end of time.
(d) The return of Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the "auto de fe"?

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

3. How does the crowd respond to the prisoner's arrest?

4. When does Ivan say religiously themed plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, stopped being performed in Moscow?

5. How does the cardinal think the prisoner would hinder his work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the grand inquisitor believe about people's freedom?

2. Why does the cardinal come to the prisoner's room alone and in the night?

3. Why does the crowd flock to Jesus?

4. Describe the grand inquisitor's manner of speech to the prisoner.

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

6. What does Alyosha think of the old man's behavior?

7. What happened the day before to 100 people declared as heretics?

8. What is the "new heresy" Ivan refers to in the "north of Germany?"

9. What is the purpose of the spirit's questions to Jesus In the wilderness?

10. How is Jesus tempted in the story?

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