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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Three Temptations of Christ.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What character is speaking when the story begins?
(a) Ivan.
(b) The narrator.
(c) Alyosha.
(d) The grand inquisitor.

2. According to Ivan, what do the characters Our Lady and God discuss in "The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell"?
(a) Forgiveness for "Our Lady."
(b) The life of Jesus.
(c) The history of the world.
(d) Mercy for all those in hell.

3. What does the inquisitor ask the prisoner to judge?
(a) The cardinal's holliness.
(b) If the inquisitor was right to judge him.
(c) If the cardinal had sinned.
(d) If the spirit who questioned him was right.

4. What does the cardinal say earth's thinkers couldn't do?
(a) Equal the force of the spirit's questions.
(b) Dicipher the true meaning of Jesus' temptation.
(c) Understand the three questions.
(d) Understand Jesus' true teaching.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the cardinal?

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

3. What does the grand inquisitor say happened to Jesus?

4. Where do the guards take the prisoner?

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

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