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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. How much will Professor Woland be paid?

2. Whom does Ivan see at the end of the chapter?

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

4. What do the writers discuss in Chapter 1?

5. Who is the stranger’s second companion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Woland really want to know?

4. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

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

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

7. What is the significance of Pushkin?

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

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

10. How does Bosoi react to seeing the dollars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Pilate’s guilt, as mentioned in Essay 14, is one significant “addition” to the original Biblical story. Find another difference between the Biblical story told in The Master and Margarita and the Bible, and compare and contrast the two.

Essay Topic 2

Woland, though the character around whom many of the actions center, is mysterious and hard to understand. What do we learn about his character? How do we learn it? How does this support or differ traditional depictions of the devil?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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