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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 do when she hears two women arguing?

2. What number is Woland’s apartment?

3. What does Azazello’s cream do?

4. What report does Pilate receive in Chapter 26?

5. What signal do Woland and his crew use as a goodbye?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Pilate feel about Yeshua’s death?

3. How did Apt. 50 expand?

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

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

6. What does the cat want to do?

7. How does the Master feel in Chapter 31?

8. What happens when the whistle blows?

9. What is the barman’s reaction to Apt. 50?

10. What is the apartment like after the ball?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

The Master works constantly on his book, which he later burns. Describe the history of the Master’s manuscript, as well as what happens to it at the end of the book. Why is its existence – and survival – important?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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