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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Ivan trying to write?
(a) An account of what happened to him.
(b) A re-telling of the Bible.
(c) Berlioz’s biography.
(d) Pontius Pilate’s story.

2. What is so strange about Varnuha?
(a) He doesn’t blink.
(b) He has no breath.
(c) He has no shadow.
(d) He has no pulse.

3. Why can’t Ivan do what is required of him in Chapter 8?
(a) He sees that he is not normal.
(b) He is drunk.
(c) He can.
(d) He has no proof.

4. What does the doctor claim Ivan doesn’t have to do?
(a) Go home.
(b) Recover.
(c) Write.
(d) Stay at the clinic.

5. What does Matthew do after the execution?
(a) He buries all three bodies.
(b) He leaves alone.
(c) He takes Yeshua’s body.
(d) He immediately goes to see Pontius Pilate.

6. Who is Dunhill?
(a) A colleague.
(b) A stranger.
(c) Another man with foreign currency.
(d) An inventor.

7. What nationality does the stranger admit to being?
(a) English.
(b) Russian.
(c) German.
(d) Austrian.

8. What do people want from Bosoi?
(a) Money.
(b) Answers about what’s happening.
(c) The apartment.
(d) Nothing.

9. Where does Rimsky think he really must be?
(a) St. Petersburg.
(b) At a bar.
(c) At the theater.
(d) Yalta.

10. What is special about the food at Griboyedov?
(a) There isn’t any.
(b) It is particularly good.
(c) It is particularly bad.
(d) There isn’t enough.

11. What did the Master primarily write about?
(a) Jesus Christ.
(b) The Devil.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) Matthew the Levite.

12. Why does Matthew steal a knife?
(a) In an attempt to kill Yeshua.
(b) In an attempt to free himself.
(c) In an attempt to kill himself.
(d) In an attempt to free Yeshua.

13. What does Rimsky consider doing to save himself?
(a) Going into hiding.
(b) Blaming everything on his partner.
(c) Fleeing the country.
(d) Turning himself him.

14. Where does the stranger say he will be staying?
(a) In a hotel.
(b) In Berlioz’s apartment.
(c) In Berlioz’s office.
(d) In a friend’s apartment.

15. What happens to the 400 rubles?
(a) It disappears.
(b) His wife steals it.
(c) It becomes butterflies.
(d) It turns into foreign currency.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who nearly gets Rimsky?

2. What disgusts Stepa in his apartment?

3. What do Berliotz and Ponirov drink at the Ponds?

4. Why does the doctor think Ivan will be back?

5. Whom does Stepa call?

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