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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 does Margarita first request?

2. What does Matthew accept from Pilate?

3. What does Margarita request secondly?

4. Where are the Master and Margarita at the end of the chapter?

5. Where does Margarita go after the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did the neighbors hear during the ball?

2. What does the cat want to do?

3. What are the alternate names for Satan’s ball?

4. How does Arthanius perform his job?

5. How does Azazello greet the pair?

6. How does Margarita leave her husband?

7. What changes about Behemoth in approaching the first store?

8. What is the Baron’s experience used as?

9. What aspects of Margarita’s appearance are particularly altered by the cream?

10. Why is Banga important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

As the title suggests, The Master and Margarita focuses on the relationship between these two eponymous characters. What is this relationship? How does it begin? Change? What is its importance in the grander scheme of the events taking place in Moscow?

Essay Topic 3

Pilate’s guilt, as mentioned in Essay 14, is one significant “addition” to the original Biblical story. Find another difference between the Biblical story told in The Master and Margarita and the Bible, and compare and contrast the two.

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