The Master and Margarita, Chapter 5: There Were Doings at Griboedov's quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. According to Amvrosy, what does a portion of perch cost at Griboedov's?

   • Correct answer: Five roubles and fifty kopecks
   • Nine roubles and fifty kopecks
   • Three roubles and twenty kopecks
   • Thirteen roubles fifteen kopecks

   Amvrosy contrasts the Coliseum's thirteen roubles fifteen kopecks with Griboedov's five-fifty, and adds that the Coliseum's perch is three days old.

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   Question 2. Why are the twelve writers upstairs so irritable at half past ten?

   • The jazz band below is too loud to work through
   • Correct answer: Berlioz is late for their meeting set for ten
   • The restaurant has refused them a veranda table
   • Their applications for dachas were turned down

   The meeting was set for ten o'clock, the room is stifling, and Berlioz, who cannot come because he is dead, has not called.

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   Question 3. When the writers telephone Perelygino, whose dacha do they reach by mistake?

   • Glukharev's
   • Beskudnikov's
   • Correct answer: Lavrovich's
   • Zheldybin's

   They get the wrong dacha, Lavrovich's, and learn he has gone to the river, which upsets them even more.

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   Question 4. What are the people standing by Berlioz's remains in the morgue debating?

   • Whether to send the body home to his family
   • Whether to bury him at once with no viewing
   • Whether to tell the writers at Griboedov's
   • Correct answer: Whether to sew the severed head to the neck

   They weigh sewing the head back on against laying out the body at Griboedov's covered to the chin with a black cloth.

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   Question 5. What can Ivan remember about the professor's name?

   • That it ends with the letters -er
   • Correct answer: Only that it begins with a W
   • That it sounds Dutch or German
   • That it was printed on his ticket

   He did not make out the name on the visiting card and recalls only the first letter, W, so he runs through Wagner, Weiner, Winter and others.

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   Question 6. Who does Ivan say is with the professor?

   • A man with a forelock and a young girl
   • A woman tram driver and a policeman
   • Two foreign spies in yellow shoes
   • Correct answer: A long checkered man and a fat black cat

   Ivan warns that there are two others: a long checkered one in cracked pince-nez, and a cat, black and fat.

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   Question 7. What does Archibald Archibaldovich say the doorman should have done on seeing Ivan?

   • Correct answer: Started blowing his whistle at once
   • Fetched Ivan a coat from the coatroom
   • Asked to see Ivan's Massolit card
   • Sent a waiter upstairs to Zheldybin

   He tells the doorman that a man in his underwear belongs at the police station, so he should have started blowing his whistle without delay.

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   Question 8. Why does the narrator insist that 'there are no Caribbean Seas in the world'?

   • To mock Amvrosy's tales of foreign holidays
   • To prove the mystics wrong about Ivan's mind
   • Correct answer: To deny the pirate tale yet fix it in our minds
   • To show that he has never travelled abroad

   The denial comes right after the vivid tale of Archibald as a Caribbean pirate, and the narrator goes on calling him the pirate, so the legend sticks.

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   Question 9. Which of these events happen in Chapter 5?

   • The jazz band strikes up at midnight and both halls break into dance.

     Happened

     Exactly at midnight the famous Griboedov jazz band strikes up, and both halls, then the veranda, break into dance.

   • Archibald Archibaldovich announces Berlioz's death from the bandstand.

     Didn't happen

     No one announces it from the bandstand; the word Berlioz simply flutters up from some table, and the jazz breaks off.

   • Someone calls for a collective telegram about Berlioz's death.

     Happened

     When the news spreads, someone fusses about, crying that a collective telegram must be composed and sent off at once.

   • The writers leave the restaurant at once to go to the morgue.

     Didn't happen

     The writers do not go to the morgue; Zheldybin comes from the morgue and calls the twelve board members to a meeting in Berlioz's office.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen when Ivan arrives at Griboedov's?

    • Ivan peers under the nearest table looking for the professor.

      Happened

      Ivan raises his candle, greets his friends, and peeks under the nearest table, crying that the professor is not there.

    • Ivan hits a man in horn-rimmed glasses on the ear.

      Happened

      When a clean-shaven man in horn-rimmed glasses tells him to calm down, Ivan calls him a cretin and hits him on the ear.

    • The doorman bars Ivan from the veranda before he can enter.

      Didn't happen

      The doorman makes for the white figure as if to bar its way but stops, smiling stupidly, and Ivan steps on to the veranda unhindered.

    • Ivan remembers the professor's full name and tells everyone.

      Didn't happen

      Ivan cannot remember the name: he did not make it out on the visiting card and recalls only that it begins with W.

    • Ivan spits at Riukhin as he is carried out through the gates.

      Happened

      As Pantelei, the doorman, a policeman, a waiter and Riukhin carry him out swaddled, Ivan spits, aiming precisely at Riukhin.

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    Question 11. What does 'onerous' mean in the phrase 'by no means onerous, price'?

    • Hidden or kept secret
    • Fixed by the government
    • Correct answer: Burdensome to pay
    • Paid in foreign money

    Onerous means burdensome; the narrator is saying that the restaurant's prices are easy on the pocket.

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    Question 12. What does 'freebooters' mean in 'no desperate freebooters sail them'?

    • Sailors who work for no pay
    • Smugglers of foreign books
    • Traders in cheap footwear
    • Correct answer: Pirates who live by plunder

    Freebooters are pirates, part of the legend that Archibald Archibaldovich once commanded a pirate brig.

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    Question 13. What does 'motley' mean in 'the motley inscriptions on the aunt's walnut doors'?

    • Correct answer: Varied and oddly assorted
    • Painted in gold letters
    • Rude and insulting
    • Faded and hard to read

    Motley means made of many mismatched kinds, like the jumble of signs for cashiers, trips and paper.

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