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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. Who is the stranger’s second companion?

2. What is Stepa’s job?

3. What do people want from Bosoi?

4. What is the doctor’s name?

5. What happens to Bengalsky?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Woland really want to know?

3. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

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

5. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

6. How does Yeshua feel about the man who is following him?

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

8. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

9. Who are the two Ivans?

10. How does Bosoi react to seeing the dollars?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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 surrounded by his three comrades. Each character represents a different aspect of his own personality; what are these? How do the characteristics manifest in the events of the novel?

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