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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 languages does Yeshua speak, other than Aramaic?

2. What is special about the food at Griboyedov?

3. What disgusts Stepa in his apartment?

4. What did the Master primarily write about?

5. How many dachas does Massolit have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do they get the phone call not to send the telegram?

2. Who are the two Ivans?

3. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

4. Why doesn’t Ivan leave the hospital?

5. Why does Berliotz take issue with Ponirov’s poem?

6. How does Yeshua feel about the man who is following him?

7. What happened to the master’s novel?

8. Why is Bosoi’s wife’s exclamation unfortunate?

9. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

10. Why won’t the Master let the woman know where he is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

The Master works constantly on his book, which he later burns. Describe the history of the Master’s manuscript, as well as what happens to it at the end of the book. Why is its existence – and survival – important?

Essay Topic 3

Several major characters end up in the asylum in the novel. What is the importance of the asylum? How is it characterized? How does this inform our understanding of Moscow, as per Essay 17?

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