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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. Where is the Master’s novel now?

2. What do people want from Bosoi?

3. What is the doctor’s diagnosis?

4. What was Dunhill’s punishment?

5. What does Yeshua call Pontius Pilate that angers the latter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who are the two Ivans?

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

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

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

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

7. What is the significance of Pushkin?

8. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

9. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

10. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

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

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

Moscow almost acts as a character in the book itself. In what ways might this be true? How is the city important, and how does it aid and/or hinder the protagonists throughout the book?

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