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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. When is Judas going to be paid?

3. For what purpose is Margarita needed?

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

5. How do the two lovers get their apartment back?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Margarita leave her husband?

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

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

5. What does the Master think about Azazello’s arrival?

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

7. How does Arthanius perform his job?

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

9. Who is the pig?

10. What happens when the whistle blows?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

A “story-within-a-story” is not a new concept; however, in The Master and Margarita, the story is not only the Master’s novel, but also a partially true story, told through other characters’ dreams, and so on. What are the various sources that tell the story of Pontius Pilate? Why is this significant?

Essay Topic 2

Almost every character (beyond Woland and his group) is extremely confused at one point or another in the novel. Describe the use of chaos, mass chaos, and its effect on the individual as depicted in The Master and Margarita.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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