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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ivan say, "there was nothing left but faith in what the heart doth say."
(a) Without Jesus' physical presence, believer's needed to trust their hearts.
(b) The population stopped believing in Jesus.
(c) People stopped trusting their feelings.
(d) The population discarded science and replaced it with philosophy.

2. Where do the guards take the prisoner?
(a) To the cathedral.
(b) To a secret location outside of town.
(c) To the prison.
(d) To the cardinal's chamber.

3. Who does the grand inquisitor say the prisoner talked to in the wilderness?
(a) A spirit.
(b) Animals.
(c) The people of Seville.
(d) Travelers on the road.

4. According to Ivan, did Jesus have any physical presence on earth in the 16th Century?
(a) No, just in the hearts and mind of beleivers.
(b) Yes, but only in his story of The Grand Inquistor.
(c) Yes, but only as a character in literary fiction.
(d) Yes, he visited holy men as recorded in their writing.

5. Why is Jesus' appearance deemed a visit?
(a) He comes to Spain.
(b) It is a vacation.
(c) It is not really him.
(d) It is not his final return.

6. Who isn't present in the girl's funeral?
(a) Jesus.
(b) The crowd.
(c) The priest.
(d) The girl's sister.

7. When does Ivan say religiously themed plays, chiefly from the Old Testament, stopped being performed in Moscow?
(a) At the start of the Spanish Inquisition.
(b) Upon the return of Jesus.
(c) At the start of WWII.
(d) Before the time of Peter the Great.

8. What is a "Literary Preface," in the case of this story?
(a) A preface explaining what literature is.
(b) A well-written introduction.
(c) A introduction explaining why the subsequent story is literature.
(d) An introduction referencing stories with similar aspects.

9. How does the cardinal think Jesus would hinder his work?
(a) Protesting for religous freedom.
(b) Focusing religious attention on himself.
(c) Trying to get him fired.
(d) Asking him too many questions.

10. What does the grand inquisitor predict will be the crowds reaction to Jesus' punishment?
(a) The will reluctantly accept it.
(b) They will protest it.
(c) They will be indifferent.
(d) The will help burn him.

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

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

13. What do the people do when they first do when they recognize Jesus?
(a) Ask him to heal them.
(b) Run away.
(c) Fall at his feet.
(d) Crowd around him.

14. What does the grand inquisitor think is important about the Jesus' encounter with the spirit?
(a) The three questions.
(b) Jesus' response.
(c) The spirit's reaction.
(d) The energy created by it.

15. Who is the character mentioned from "Le bon jugement de la tres sainte et gracieuse Vierge Marie," when Ivan references this play?
(a) The devil.
(b) The Virgin Mary.
(c) The grand inquisitor.
(d) Jesus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What breaks Ivan's Narrative?

2. What does the woman of the dead child do when asking Jesus for help?

3. Who is Ivan talking about when he says, "He comes on the scene in my poem, but He says nothing, only appears and passes on"?

4. What does the grand inquisitor say Jesus rejects in the wilderness?

5. What does the prisoner do to be recognized by the people?

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