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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. What saves Rimsky?

2. What is the first kind of trick performed?

3. Where does Boisoi hide the extra 400 rubles?

4. What does the doctor claim Ivan doesn’t have to do?

5. What does Rimsky consider doing to save himself?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

3. Why does Bezdomny go to the apartment building?

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

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

6. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

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

8. What is the meaning of the Chapter 6's title?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many characters transform throughout the book, in big and small ways. Margarita turns into a witch, several characters die, are brought to life, turn into pigs, etc. What is the significance of these transformations? Pick one and explain how the character changes externally and internally.

Essay Topic 2

The Master and Margarita features many characters who are writers by profession. Who are they? What do they write? Is there a hierarchy among them? Describe the importance of this profession within the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Woland is referred to as Satan at several points in the novel. However, he also performs some good deeds, notably for Margarita and the Master. With this as a starting point, discuss good and evil and the boundaries of these concepts in the novel.

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