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

2. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus rejects in the wilderness?
(a) Sin in man.
(b) The teachings of the church.
(c) The inquistion.
(d) His temptation by a spirt.

3. What does Ivan mean when he says, "It was customary in poetry to bring down heavenly powers on earth"?
(a) Writing poems is normal for those with "heavenly powers."
(b) It is common to use religious figures as characters in poetry.
(c) Poetry gives heavenly powers to all listeners.
(d) Poetry makes supernatural power commonplace.

4. What does the girl do when she comes back to life?
(a) Laughs.
(b) Jumps out of the coffin.
(c) Cries.
(d) Looks at flowers.

5. What doesn't the inquisitor say is brought to together by the spirit's questions to Jesus?
(a) The history of mankind afterward.
(b) Fact and imagination.
(c) The people's philosophy.
(d) Contradictions of human nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. Before he is arrested in the story, what doesn't Jesus do?

2. What is a "Literary Preface," in the case of this story?

3. How old is the cardinal?

4. What religious historical event, "in the north of Germany" is called, "a terrible new heresy."

5. Who is the first person Jesus helps in the crowd?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the priest in the funeral look perplexed?

3. Why were the cardinals, the king and his court, the knights, and the whole population of Seville at the auto de fe?

4. Why does the crowd ask to be healed by the stranger?

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

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

7. Describe the grand inquisitor's attitude to the three questions that tempted Jesus.

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

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

10. Why didn't Jesus use his powers to control man?

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