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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 Stepa’s job?

2. Where does the stranger say he will be staying?

3. How does Berlioz die?

4. What had Dunhill done with his currency?

5. Whom in Berlioz’s family does the stranger know about?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

2. Why is it hard to believe that Likhodeyev is in Yalta?

3. How does Yeshua feel about the man who is following him?

4. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

5. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

6. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

7. What happens to Matthew and Yeshua at the end of the chapter?

8. Why won’t the Master let the woman know where he is?

9. Why does Dismas suffer more than the other prisoners?

10. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Master and Margarita features many characters who are writers by profession. Who are they? What do they write? Is there a hierarchy among them? Describe the importance of this profession within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

The Master works constantly on his book, which he later burns. Describe the history of the Master’s manuscript, as well as what happens to it at the end of the book. Why is its existence – and survival – important?

Essay Topic 3

Woland is surrounded by his three comrades. Each character represents a different aspect of his own personality; what are these? How do the characteristics manifest in the events of the novel?

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