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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 are the Master and Margarita at the end of the chapter?

2. What does Azazello do to the Master and Margarita?

3. For what purpose is Margarita needed?

4. Who does Margarita see in the river?

5. Who is prevented from taking Berlioz’s flat?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is the dog still with Pilate?

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

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

4. Why is Niza important?

5. What happened to Baron Maigel, from the outside?

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

7. How does the Master feel in Chapter 31?

8. Name two of three literary works named in Chapter 28.

9. What does the cat want to do?

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

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

Though The Master and Margarita examines profound themes, it is also a very funny book. Describe the use of humor in the novel and what it adds to the narrative and the characters’ development.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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