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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. Who is Natasha?

2. Where is Judas’s body now?

3. What does Ivan claim he will not do in the future?

4. How does Margarita bathe before the ball?

5. Who has read the Master’s novel?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Master feel in Chapter 31?

3. How does Azazello greet the pair?

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

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

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

7. Why is the dog still with Pilate?

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Pontius Pilate is shown in a new light in The Master and Margarita, especially concerning his guilt. Explore Pilate’s guilt as an emotion and as a shaping force in the novel.

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