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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 money does Bosoi ask for the apartment?

2. What must Ivan do to be able to leave?

3. What is the last trick of the show?

4. What was Dunhill’s punishment?

5. Whom does the stranger claim to have breakfasted with?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Woland really want to know?

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

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

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

5. What is the significance of Pushkin?

6. What happened to the master’s novel?

7. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

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

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

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

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

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 3

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.

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