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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 weather at the end of Chapter 29?

2. Who comes to the basement apartment?

3. What is strange about the director of the theatrical commission?

4. What number is Woland’s apartment?

5. What happens to the shop as the two cronies leave?

Short Essay Questions

1. What changes about Behemoth in approaching the first store?

2. How does Azazello greet the pair?

3. What aspects of Margarita’s appearance are particularly altered by the cream?

4. What is the Baron’s experience used as?

5. How does Pilate feel about Yeshua’s death?

6. What did the neighbors hear during the ball?

7. What does the cat want to do?

8. Why is Niza important?

9. What happened to Baron Maigel, from the outside?

10. Why is the dog still with Pilate?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The theater is an important locale in the novel. What aspects of the novel itself are particularly performative? How is this mirrored in the events of the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Pilate’s guilt, as mentioned in Essay 14, is one significant “addition” to the original Biblical story. Find another difference between the Biblical story told in The Master and Margarita and the Bible, and compare and contrast the two.

Essay Topic 3

Woland, though the character around whom many of the actions center, is mysterious and hard to understand. What do we learn about his character? How do we learn it? How does this support or differ traditional depictions of the devil?

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