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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the cardinal?

2. What does the girl do when she comes back to life?

3. Where is the cardinal when he sees the crowd?

4. What does the inquisitor say man can not understand?

5. What is the first thing the visitor does when entering the prisoner's cell?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Ivan's manner the first time Alyosha stops to question him.

4. Why doesn't the grand inquisitor want Jesus to add to his teachings?

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

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

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

8. How is Jesus tempted in the story?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why does the grand inquisitor say that man is afraid of conscience? How could this conscience be seized? How could it be used by the church if they came to control it as predicted by the grand inquisitor?

Essay Topic 2

Why does the crowd's behavior change toward Jesus, once the grandinquisitor appears? Identify how the crowd is feeling before Jesus is arrested. Do their feelings change, or just their behavior? What is their opinion of the grand inquisitor?

Essay Topic 3

Write about the relationship between the Ivan and Alyosha, do they agree with each other's thinking? Is there love and respect between the brothers?

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