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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 happens to Yeshua before he dies?

4. What did the Master primarily write about?

5. How are the Massolit members informed of Berlioz’s fate?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

5. What does Woland really want to know?

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

7. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

8. What is the significance of Pushkin?

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

10. What happened to the master’s novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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.

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