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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. Where does the stranger say he will be staying?

2. What do people want from Bosoi?

3. Whom in Berlioz’s family does the stranger know about?

4. What is Professor Woland a professor of?

5. Where does Stepa end up?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the doctor’s logic for “normality”?

4. Why has Borsoi been brought to the institution?

5. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

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

7. Who are the two Ivans?

8. What is the significance of Pushkin?

9. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

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

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

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 3

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?

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