The Master and Margarita, Chapter 7: A Naughty Apartment quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Where is Styopa when he first wakes up in Chapter 7?

   • At the dacha of the sketch-writer Khustov
   • In a taxi parked outside the Metropol
   • On a sofa in his office at the Variety
   • Correct answer: In his own bed in apartment no.50

   He recognizes the pier-glass and realizes he is lying in his own bed, the jeweller's wife's former bed, at home.

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   Question 2. What remedy does Woland offer for Styopa's hangover?

   • Correct answer: Two glasses of vodka with something pickled and hot
   • Two aspirin tablets and a glass of cold water
   • A long walk in the fresh air by the Ponds
   • Strong black coffee and a few hours more sleep

   Following the rule 'cure like with like,' Woland says only vodka with a pickled, hot snack will bring Styopa back to life.

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   Question 3. What does the contract Woland shows Styopa provide for?

   • A month of shows, with the fee set by the Entertainment Commission
   • Twelve performances, with the money paid after the last show
   • Correct answer: Seven performances, with an advance of ten thousand roubles
   • A single show, paid in full with thirty-five thousand roubles

   Rimsky's note authorizes ten thousand roubles as an advance on the thirty-five thousand due for seven performances.

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   Question 4. How did the lodger Belomut disappear from the apartment?

   • He left for his dacha and was never seen again
   • Correct answer: A car took him to work and never brought him back
   • He went out for medicine late one night and vanished
   • He was led away by a white-gloved policeman

   A car came as usual to take him to work; it did take him, but it brought no one back and never came again.

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   Question 5. Why does the seal on Berlioz's door make Styopa so uneasy?

   • He believes Woland placed it there to trap him in the flat
   • He fears the police will blame him for Berlioz's death
   • Correct answer: He recalls an article and a dinner talk that could implicate him
   • He thinks the seal means his own room will be taken away

   He immediately remembers the idiotic article he pushed on Berlioz and a conversation on an unnecessary subject on the twenty-fourth of April.

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   Question 6. According to Woland, where has the housekeeper Grunya gone?

   • Correct answer: To Voronezh, for her vacation
   • To the Variety with a message
   • To the police station about Berlioz
   • To her own home across the city

   Woland says he sent her off to Voronezh because she complained Styopa had diddled her out of a vacation.

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   Question 7. What reason does Woland give for wanting Styopa out of the apartment?

   • The apartment was promised to him by Berlioz long ago
   • Styopa has insulted him by forgetting his name
   • Styopa owes him money from the signed contract
   • Correct answer: His retinue needs room, and Styopa is one too many

   Woland says the retinue requires room, so there is one too many of them in the apartment, and that one is Styopa.

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   Question 8. How does Azazello make his entrance in the bedroom?

   • He walks in from the kitchen with a tray
   • Correct answer: He steps straight out of the pier-glass
   • He climbs in through the bedroom window
   • He rises up out of the jeweller's ottoman

   The fourth and last appearance comes when a short, broad-shouldered redhead steps straight out of the pier-glass.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually occur in Chapter 7?

   • Styopa phones Rimsky, who says the posters for the black magician will be ready shortly.

     Happened

     Styopa dials Rimsky at the Variety, and Rimsky answers that the posters for the black magician will be ready shortly.

   • Woland pays Styopa back for the vodka and hors d'oeuvres out of his own wallet.

     Didn't happen

     It is Styopa who offers to reimburse the visitor and hunts for his wallet; Woland calls it nonsense and will hear no more of it.

   • The huge black cat drinks a glass of vodka and spears a pickled mushroom on a fork.

     Happened

     On the jeweller's wife's ottoman the huge black cat holds a glass of vodka and a fork with a speared pickled mushroom, then tosses off the vodka.

   • Styopa recognizes Woland at once as the professor from the Patriarch's Ponds.

     Didn't happen

     Styopa does not recognize the visitor at all: he cannot recall his name and is sure he never saw this Woland yesterday.

   • Styopa kneels before a stranger on a jetty and asks what city he is in.

     Happened

     Waking on a jetty by the sea, Styopa kneels before a smoker and begs to be told what city this is; it is Yalta.

   • Berlioz's wife returns from Kharkov to claim her husband's study.

     Didn't happen

     Berlioz's wife does not return; the narrator only reports talk that she was supposedly seen in Kharkov with some ballet-master.

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    Question 10. What does 'perspicacious' mean in: 'the visitor said, with a perspicacious smile'?

    • Correct answer: Shrewd and quick to understand
    • Nervous and eager to please
    • Sleepy and slow to react
    • Cruel, cold and openly mocking him

    Perspicacious means perceptive and shrewd; Woland sees exactly what state Styopa is in.

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    Question 11. What does 'fawningly' mean in: 'Styopa said fawningly'?

    • In a slow, sleepy whisper
    • Correct answer: In a flattering, servile way
    • In a loud, cheerful, careless voice
    • In an angry, defiant tone

    Fawningly means with excessive flattery; Styopa begs Woland to keep his drinking between them.

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    Question 12. What does 'retinue' mean in: 'This is my retinue.'?

    • A household's rooms and furniture
    • A set of tricks for a stage show
    • Correct answer: A body of attendants or followers
    • A list of debts owed to a creditor

    A retinue is a group of followers attending an important person, here the checkered man and the cat.

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