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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 do Koroviev and Behemoth go after the shop?

2. What visitor does Pilate receive at the end of the chapter?

3. What is Margarita doing at the beginning of Chapter 27?

4. What is the weather at the beginning of Chapter 31?

5. What report does Pilate receive in Chapter 26?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Margarita compare herself to Matthew the Levit?

2. What happens first at the bank that surprises the accountant?

3. What animal’s picture adorns several of Margarita’s accoutrements?

4. Why does Margarita not cry as usual upon waking?

5. What did the neighbors hear during the ball?

6. Who is the pig?

7. What does Margarita do with ink and a hammer in Chapter 21?

8. How does the Master feel in Chapter 31?

9. What is strange about the suit in Chapter 17?

10. How does Azazello greet the pair?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Different forms of love are shown in the novel, not simply the relationship between the Master and Margarita. Who else might be said to be in love, or to love someone else? In what sense?

Essay Topic 2

Woland, though the character around whom many of the actions center, is mysterious and hard to understand. What do we learn about his character? How do we learn it? How does this support or differ traditional depictions of the devil?

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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