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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. What does Margarita have to do that evening?

3. What does the cat take at the first store?

4. How do Woland’s guests appear?

5. What does the doctor order from his nurse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Niza important?

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

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

4. How does Margarita leave her husband?

5. What did the neighbors hear during the ball?

6. Who is the tax-gatherer that Woland addresses?

7. How does Azazello greet the pair?

8. What does Matthew say about the Master?

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

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

Moscow almost acts as a character in the book itself. In what ways might this be true? How is the city important, and how does it aid and/or hinder the protagonists throughout the book?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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