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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 Matthew claim the Master has earned?

2. What is Woland’s next step?

3. What does Pilate have in common with the visitor?

4. What signal do Woland and his crew use as a goodbye?

5. What do the police believe explains the strange events?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Baron Maigel, from the outside?

2. What does Matthew say about the Master?

3. How does Azazello greet the pair?

4. Why is the dog still with Pilate?

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

6. Who is the pig?

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

8. What does the cat want to do?

9. What happens when the whistle blows?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The theater is an important locale in the novel. What aspects of the novel itself are particularly performative? How is this mirrored in the events of the narrative?

Essay Topic 2

Characters of different kinds take refuge in religion in The Master and Margarita, to various ends. When is religion helpful to characters, and when does it lead them into mischief? Provide three examples.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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