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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 a friend’s apartment.
(b) In a hotel.
(c) In Berlioz’s apartment.
(d) In Berlioz’s office.

2. What is Griboyedov?
(a) A retreat.
(b) The writer’s association headquarters.
(c) An apartment building.
(d) A Russian city.

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

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

5. Who watches the prisoners at first?
(a) A large crowd.
(b) Only Matthew the Levite.
(c) Only Pontius Pilate.
(d) Nobody.

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

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

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

9. How did the Master get the keys?
(a) He bought them.
(b) From the nurse.
(c) He owns the institution.
(d) He stole them.

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

11. 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.

12. Who has been following Yeshua?
(a) A group of ten men.
(b) Judas.
(c) Matthew the Levite.
(d) The army.

13. Where did the young man in Chapter 15 hide his currency?
(a) In his WC.
(b) In a picture frame.
(c) In his aunt’s basement.
(d) Under his bed.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bezdomny wearing when he arrives?

2. What saves Rimsky?

3. Where is the last place in Chapter 4 that Bezdomny thinks he might find the stranger?

4. How many proofs of God are there, according to the stranger?

5. What is Pontius Pilate’s position?

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