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

2. What is Ivan trying to write?

3. Where does Likhodeyev claim he is?

4. Whom does the stranger claim to have breakfasted with?

5. Where does the stranger say he will be staying?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

3. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

4. What is the meaning of the Chapter 7's title?

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

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

7. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

8. What does Woland really want to know?

9. What is the significance of Pushkin?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Woland declares himself a performer of black magic at one point. What magic is particularly dark that he performs? Is there magic that seems less dark, or even perhaps positive?

Essay Topic 2

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.

Essay Topic 3

Towards the end of the book, Woland’s cronies transform into their original shapes. What are these shapes? How are they significant? How do they inform our understanding of the characters’ behavior in their modified forms earlier in the book?

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