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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 first request?

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

3. Who is the second visitor to Berlioz’s flat in Chapter 18?

4. What does Matthew not know?

5. What game is Woland playing when Margarita arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the Master do for Pontius Pilate?

4. How does Margarita leave her husband?

5. What is the apartment like after the ball?

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

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

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

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

10. What does Matthew say about the Master?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

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?

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