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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 the rule at the first store Koroviev and Behemoth enter?

2. What does Azazello’s cream do?

3. When is Judas going to be paid?

4. What happens to the shop as the two cronies leave?

5. What is Margarita hoping for in Chapter 19?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Niza important?

2. Why is Banga important?

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

4. What does the Master do for Pontius Pilate?

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

6. Whom does Poplosky come looking for, and whom does he find?

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

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

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

10. What does the cat want to do?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Woland is referred to as Satan at several points in the novel. However, he also performs some good deeds, notably for Margarita and the Master. With this as a starting point, discuss good and evil and the boundaries of these concepts in the novel.

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

Several major characters end up in the asylum in the novel. What is the importance of the asylum? How is it characterized? How does this inform our understanding of Moscow, as per Essay 17?

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