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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How does Borsoi explain the currency in his dream?
(a) It was an illusion.
(b) It was a gift.
(c) He earned it.
(d) It was magic.

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

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

6. Who accompanies the prisoners up the hill?
(a) Judas.
(b) The army.
(c) The centurions.
(d) Pontius Pilate.

7. Why does Ivan say he put the icon on?
(a) Just in case.
(b) As decoration.
(c) To repel evil.
(d) For good luck.

8. Where does Stepa end up?
(a) The other side of Moscow.
(b) In his own apartment.
(c) Yalta.
(d) St. Petersburg.

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

10. How are the Massolit members informed of Berlioz’s fate?
(a) By Woland in person.
(b) They are not.
(c) By telegram.
(d) By telephone.

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

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

13. What is the first kind of trick performed?
(a) A mirror trick.
(b) A trick with a coffin.
(c) A card trick.
(d) A trick with money.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Stepa’s job?

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

3. What does Matthew do during the execution?

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

5. How much money does Bosoi ask for the apartment?

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