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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the red-headed man and cat take Varnukha?

2. What is Stepa’s job?

3. How old is Ivan?

4. Who is in the audience in Nikanor Ivanovich’s dream?

5. Who accompanies the prisoners up the hill?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

5. How does Bosoi react to seeing the dollars?

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

7. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

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

9. What is the significance of Pushkin?

10. How does Yeshua feel about the man who is following him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Moscow almost acts as a character in the book itself. In what ways might this be true? How is the city important, and how does it aid and/or hinder the protagonists throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

A “story-within-a-story” is not a new concept; however, in The Master and Margarita, the story is not only the Master’s novel, but also a partially true story, told through other characters’ dreams, and so on. What are the various sources that tell the story of Pontius Pilate? Why is this significant?

Essay Topic 3

Almost every character (beyond Woland and his group) is extremely confused at one point or another in the novel. Describe the use of chaos, mass chaos, and its effect on the individual as depicted in The Master and Margarita.

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