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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 upsets Ivan?

2. What is Bezdomny wearing when he arrives?

3. What is Pontius Pilate’s position?

4. What is the last trick of the show?

5. What is the reason Koroviev gives for being in the apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

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

4. What does Woland really want to know?

5. Who are the two Ivans?

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

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

8. How does Rimsky feel when he thinks Stepa has just been drunk?

9. What does Berlioz think about the stranger?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Towards the end of the book, Woland’s cronies transform into their original shapes. What are these shapes? How are they significant? How do they inform our understanding of the characters’ behavior in their modified forms earlier in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Different forms of love are shown in the novel, not simply the relationship between the Master and Margarita. Who else might be said to be in love, or to love someone else? In what sense?

Essay Topic 3

The Master works constantly on his book, which he later burns. Describe the history of the Master’s manuscript, as well as what happens to it at the end of the book. Why is its existence – and survival – important?

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