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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 does the cardinal do when he repeats the spirit's questions?
(a) He makes a joke of it.
(b) He puts it into he own words.
(c) He quotes the bible.
(d) He poses it to the prisoner.

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

3. What does Ivan tell Alyosha is the chief part of the cardinal's speech?
(a) Why he asks the prisoner why he has come.
(b) Why he tells the prisoner he was warned.
(c) Why he wants the prisoner killed.
(d) Why he thinks the prisoner is Jesus.

4. Why does Ivan say the character "Our Lady" falls before the throne of God and beg?
(a) She believes in forgiveness for all.
(b) She wants to save her friends in hell.
(c) She thinks denial of heaven sufficent punishment.
(d) She is shocked at what she sees in hell.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the cardinal say earth's thinkers couldn't do?

2. How does the crowd respond to the prisoner's arrest?

3. How does the grand inquisitor feel about the questions that Jesus was tempted with?

4. When the people are silent before him what does the cardinal do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why does the inquisitor think the three questions are important?

6. Why does Ivan call Jesus' appearance a visit?

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

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

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

10. What happened the day before to 100 people declared as heretics?

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