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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 signals the end of the party?

2. Where does the accountant go next?

3. Who arrives at the end of Chapter 22?

4. What is the rule at the first store Koroviev and Behemoth enter?

5. Where does Margarita go after the river?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Niza important?

3. Who is the pig?

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

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

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

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

8. What happens when the whistle blows?

9. How does Azazello greet the pair?

10. Whom does Poplosky come looking for, and whom does he find?

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

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 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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