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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What upsets Ivan?
(a) His friend’s death.
(b) Being imprisoned.
(c) His own mind.
(d) The act of writing.

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

4. What saves Rimsky?
(a) Woland’s entrance.
(b) Berlioz’s funeral.
(c) He is Catholic.
(d) The cock crow at dawn.

5. What is Pontius Pilate’s position?
(a) Emperor.
(b) It is unclear.
(c) Procurator.
(d) Centurion.

6. Whom does Ivan think he hears at the end of the chapter?
(a) The doctor.
(b) A voice from outside.
(c) Berlioz.
(d) A nurse.

7. What profession does Pontius Pilate think Yeshua might belong to?
(a) Physician.
(b) Writer.
(c) Priest.
(d) Philosopher.

8. What had Dunhill done with his currency?
(a) Spent it on his mistress.
(b) Lost it.
(c) Invested it.
(d) Turned it in.

9. When did the stranger arrive in Moscow?
(a) Just this minute.
(b) He is a native.
(c) Yesterday.
(d) Earlier today.

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

11. Whom in Berlioz’s family does the stranger know about?
(a) His uncle in Kiev.
(b) His parents.
(c) His wife.
(d) His daughter.

12. Why does the doctor think Ivan will be back?
(a) He is so odd, people will send him back.
(b) He has nowhere else to go.
(c) He will realize he needs help.
(d) He won’t be able to take his withdrawal symptoms.

13. Where do the red-headed man and cat take Varnukha?
(a) Stepa’s old apartment.
(b) Berlioz’s apartment.
(c) Yalta.
(d) The theater.

14. How much money does Likhodeyev need?
(a) None.
(b) 1,000 rubles.
(c) 500 rubles.
(d) 5,000 rubles.

15. Where does Rimsky go?
(a) To a taxi home.
(b) To the train station.
(c) To the airport.
(d) Nowhere.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the doctor’s diagnosis?

2. What is different about the stranger after Berlioz’s death?

3. Who is the stranger’s second companion?

4. Where is the Master’s novel now?

5. Whom does the stranger claim to have breakfasted with?

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