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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the theater men warned about the telegrams?
(a) To not let them out of sight.
(b) That they must be sent immediately.
(c) Not to take them anywhere.
(d) To keep them close at hand.

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

3. Why does Matthew steal a knife?
(a) In an attempt to free Yeshua.
(b) In an attempt to kill Yeshua.
(c) In an attempt to free himself.
(d) In an attempt to kill himself.

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

5. Whom does Stepa call?
(a) The treasurer of the theater.
(b) His wife.
(c) The police.
(d) His accountant.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom in Berlioz’s family does the stranger know about?

2. What is the problem with Ponirov’s poem?

3. Who is the stranger’s first companion?

4. How does the stranger claim he can confirm his story?

5. What is so strange about Varnuha?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rimsky feel when he thinks Stepa has just been drunk?

2. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

3. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

4. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

5. Why won’t the Master let the woman know where he is?

6. Why is it hard to believe that Likhodeyev is in Yalta?

7. Why is Bosoi’s wife’s exclamation unfortunate?

8. Why does Bezdomny go to the apartment building?

9. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

10. What is the doctor’s logic for “normality”?

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