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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. How are the Massolit members informed of Berlioz’s fate?

2. Where do the red-headed man and cat take Varnukha?

3. What is so strange about Varnuha?

4. Whom does Ivan think he hears at the end of the chapter?

5. Whom does Varnukha find at the place the red-headed man and cat take Varnukha?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of Pushkin?

2. Why does Bezdomny go to the apartment building?

3. How does Ivan feel towards the doctor?

4. What is the meaning of the Chapter 6's title?

5. What do the members think of Bezdomny?

6. What is the doctor’s logic for “normality”?

7. What is the meaning of the Chapter 7's title?

8. What bothers Woland about Bengalsky?

9. Why does Dismas suffer more than the other prisoners?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many characters transform throughout the book, in big and small ways. Margarita turns into a witch, several characters die, are brought to life, turn into pigs, etc. What is the significance of these transformations? Pick one and explain how the character changes externally and internally.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Pilate’s guilt, as mentioned in Essay 14, is one significant “addition” to the original Biblical story. Find another difference between the Biblical story told in The Master and Margarita and the Bible, and compare and contrast the two.

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