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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 Professor Woland a professor of?

2. Whom in Berlioz’s family does the stranger know about?

3. What does Rimsky consider doing to save himself?

4. What initially pleases the audience?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

4. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

5. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

6. Who are the two Ivans?

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

8. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

9. What happened to the master’s novel?

10. What does Woland really want to know?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

As the title suggests, The Master and Margarita focuses on the relationship between these two eponymous characters. What is this relationship? How does it begin? Change? What is its importance in the grander scheme of the events taking place in Moscow?

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