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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dunhill’s punishment?
(a) Losing the rest of his money.
(b) Whatever his wife decided.
(c) Being left by his mistress.
(d) Losing his money in the stock market.

2. Who is the stranger’s second companion?
(a) An assistant.
(b) The check-suited man.
(c) A young boy.
(d) A cat.

3. Where is the last place in Chapter 4 that Bezdomny thinks he might find the stranger?
(a) In Belioz’s apartment.
(b) Yalta.
(c) Griboyedov.
(d) By the river.

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

5. Who nearly gets Rimsky?
(a) A woman with green arms.
(b) A black cat.
(c) Woland.
(d) A pig.

6. What is Professor Woland a professor of?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Black magic.
(c) History.
(d) Languages.

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

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

9. How does Berlioz die?
(a) From internal bleeding.
(b) Of natural causes.
(c) He is beheaded.
(d) A heart attack.

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

11. Who is the stranger’s first companion?
(a) A young boy.
(b) An assistant.
(c) A cat.
(d) The check-suited man.

12. How does the stranger claim he can confirm his story?
(a) He can't.
(b) He has photographs.
(c) He has witnesses.
(d) He was there.

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

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

15. How does Ivan write his story?
(a) He puts off writing it.
(b) Immediately.
(c) By dictating it.
(d) In bits and pieces.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the woman carrying flowers in the Master’s story?

2. How did the Master get the keys?

3. What is Griboyedov?

4. What part of Ivan’s speech particularly disturbs those around him?

5. Who is Dunhill?

(see the answer keys)

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