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

2. Why can’t Ivan do what is required of him in Chapter 8?
(a) He can.
(b) He is drunk.
(c) He sees that he is not normal.
(d) He has no proof.

3. What must Ivan do to be able to leave?
(a) Write a letter.
(b) Say he is normal.
(c) Walk in a straight line.
(d) Prove his story.

4. What do people want from Bosoi?
(a) Money.
(b) The apartment.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Answers about what’s happening.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who nearly gets Rimsky?

2. What is strange about the cat?

3. Why does Matthew steal a knife?

4. Who is the stranger’s second companion?

5. What is the clue that startles Bezdomny about his friend’s death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do they get the phone call not to send the telegram?

2. What is the significance of Pushkin?

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

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

5. Why does Berliotz take issue with Ponirov’s poem?

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

7. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

8. Why does Dismas suffer more than the other prisoners?

9. What happens to Matthew and Yeshua at the end of the chapter?

10. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

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