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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 different about the stranger after Berlioz’s death?

2. What is special about the food at Griboyedov?

3. Whom does Ivan think he hears at the end of the chapter?

4. Why does Bosoi go to the apartment?

5. What is Griboyedov?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Woland really want to know?

3. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

4. What happened to the master’s novel?

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

6. Who are the two Ivans?

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

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

9. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

10. What is the significance of Pushkin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Master and Margarita features many characters who are writers by profession. Who are they? What do they write? Is there a hierarchy among them? Describe the importance of this profession within the novel.

Essay Topic 2

One seemingly absurd transformation is that of Natasha and her pig. What is the significance of this transformation? How does it relate to the other characters? Is it actually absurd, in a final analysis?

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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