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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. What is the first question the spirit asks Jesus?
2. What did the grand inquisitor believe when he was younger?
3. What does the inquisitor accuse Jesus of?
4. What responsibility does the inquisitor say the has clergy taken on?
5. What does Alyosha accuse the inquisitor of?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the second temptation put to Jesus?
2. Why does Ivan say Catholics don't like Masons?
3. Why does the grand inquisitor think bribing man with bread is useless?
4. Why does the grand inquisitor say Jesus refused in the second temptation?
5. Why does Jesus deserve to be burned at the stake, according to the grand inquisitor?
6. Who does the church follow instead of Jesus?
7. According to the grand inquisitor, what would have happened if Jesus had changed the stones into bread?
8. Why does the grand inquisitor value the weak?
9. Describe Alyosha's response to Ivan's poem.
10. What similarity is drawn about Catholics and Masons?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
According to the grand inquisitor, what effect would Jesus turning stones into bread have on the world? What reactions would this cause people to have toward him? What does the grand inquisitor believe Jesus should have done differently? How does the grand inquisitor explain the church's reaction to Jesus refusal of this temptation?
Essay Topic 3
Why does the grand inquisitor let Jesus go after promising to kill him? Why does Jesus kiss the Grand Inquisitor? Is the release of Jesus a result of the kiss? Does the grand inquisitor change his mind at the end of the story or continue to believe as he did.?
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