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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 Bar-Abba’s crime?

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

3. What did the Master primarily write about?

4. Where is the last place in Chapter 4 that Bezdomny thinks he might find the stranger?

5. Where do the red-headed man and cat take Varnukha?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Bosoi react to seeing the dollars?

5. Why won’t the Master let the woman know where he is?

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

7. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

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

9. Who are the two Ivans?

10. What is the discontent surrounding Klyazma?

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

The theater is an important locale in the novel. What aspects of the novel itself are particularly performative? How is this mirrored in the events of the narrative?

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