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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 must Ivan do to be able to leave?

2. Who is Bengalsky?

3. How much money does Likhodeyev need?

4. What is different about the stranger after Berlioz’s death?

5. What do Berliotz and Ponirov drink at the Ponds?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

3. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

4. What happened to the master’s novel?

5. Why does Bezdomny go to the apartment building?

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

7. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

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

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

10. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Several major characters end up in the asylum in the novel. What is the importance of the asylum? How is it characterized? How does this inform our understanding of Moscow, as per Essay 17?

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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