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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What initially pleases the audience?
(a) Woland’s appearance.
(b) They don’t believe the tricks.
(c) The mood of the evening.
(d) They receive a lot of money.

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

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

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

7. Why doesn’t the Master jump?
(a) He’s planning to.
(b) He is hiding.
(c) He has nowhere to go.
(d) He tried and failed.

8. What does Yeshua call Pontius Pilate that angers the latter?
(a) “Caesar”.
(b) “Good man”.
(c) “Centurion”.
(d) “Pilate”.

9. What part of Ivan’s speech particularly disturbs those around him?
(a) His discussion of Pontius Pilate.
(b) The gore he uses in description.
(c) His accent.
(d) His description of the stranger.

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

11. Who is in the audience in Nikanor Ivanovich’s dream?
(a) Only women.
(b) Only children.
(c) Just Woland.
(d) Only men.

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

13. Where is the Master’s novel now?
(a) In wide circulation.
(b) Woland stole it.
(c) With the writers’ association.
(d) It has been burned.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Master get the keys?

2. Whom does Berlioz see as he leaves?

3. Whom does Ivan want to go see?

4. Who is the stranger’s second companion?

5. Why does Matthew steal a knife?

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