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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 is strange about the cat?

2. What is confusing about Berlioz’s name?

3. What profession does Pontius Pilate think Yeshua might belong to?

4. What nationality does the stranger admit to being?

5. What is Bar-Abba’s crime?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What elements of the story does Borsoi’s dream combine?

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

5. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

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

7. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

8. What happened to the master’s novel?

9. How does Bosoi react to seeing the dollars?

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

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 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

Pontius Pilate is shown in a new light in The Master and Margarita, especially concerning his guilt. Explore Pilate’s guilt as an emotion and as a shaping force in the novel.

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