The Master and Margarita, Chapter 21: Flight quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. As Margarita flies down the lane toward the Arbat, what becomes clear about the passers-by?

   • They point up and shout at her broom
   • They take her for a large night bird
   • They run indoors, frightened by the wind
   • Correct answer: They cannot see the lady flier at all

   No one throws back his head, shrieks or dashes aside; it is abundantly clear that passers-by do not see her.

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   Question 2. In the kitchen Margarita peeks into, what is one woman scolding Pelageya Petrovna about?

   • Playing her radio far too loudly
   • Correct answer: Leaving the toilet light on after her
   • Never sweeping the shared hallway
   • Burning the soup on the shared range

   The woman tells Pelageya Petrovna to turn the toilet light off after her, or they will apply to have her evicted.

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   Question 3. On which floor of Dramlit House is Latunsky's apartment?

   • Correct answer: The eighth floor
   • The fourth floor
   • The third floor
   • The seventh floor

   The narrator calls Latunsky the inhabitant of apartment no. 84 on the eighth floor, and his five dark windows are at the corner of that floor.

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   Question 4. What does Margarita do with Latunsky's dress suit?

   • Pours a bottle of ink over it
   • Throws it out of the window
   • Correct answer: Drowns it in the bathtub
   • Slashes it with a kitchen knife

   She takes the suit out of the wardrobe and drowns it in the tub; the knife is used on the sheets and the ink on the bed.

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   Question 5. Whom does the little boy name as the one breaking windows?

   • Correct answer: Sitnik, who has a slingshot
   • The doorman, with his whistle
   • The wind off the river
   • His mother, who ran out

   After Margarita says some boys are breaking windows with a slingshot, the boy says it is Sitnik, who has one.

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   Question 6. What does Margarita realize when two rows of lights merge into unbroken fiery lines?

   • Natasha is chasing close behind
   • Correct answer: She is flying at enormous speed
   • She is about to land by a river
   • She has flown in a full circle

   Seeing how quickly the lines vanish behind her, she understands her enormous speed and is amazed she is not out of breath.

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   Question 7. What confirms that the fat swimmer at the river is drunk?

   • He offers her a glass of vodka
   • He staggers into the bushes
   • He sings a French drinking song
   • Correct answer: The river smells of cognac

   Besides his huffing and hiccuping, the river suddenly begins to smell of cognac, and he later blames the cognac for his mistake.

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   Question 8. Why does the goat-legged one call a car for Margarita?

   • The witches took her broom away
   • Natasha asked him to send one
   • Correct answer: He thinks a broom is inconvenient
   • Her broom broke when she dived

   On learning she came on a broom, he exclaims that it is so inconvenient and phones for a car on a telephone made of twigs.

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   Question 9. What does 'timorously' mean in: 'sat a boy of about four, listening timorously'?

   • In a stubborn, sulky way
   • In a sleepy, dreamy way
   • In a curious, eager way
   • Correct answer: In a timid, fearful way

   Timorously means timidly or fearfully; the boy alone in his room is frightened by the breaking windows.

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    Question 10. What does 'magnanimously' mean in: 'magnanimously forgive me, bright Queen Margot!'?

    • Correct answer: In a generous, forgiving way
    • In a loud, boastful manner
    • In a sly, mocking manner
    • In a slow, careful manner

    Magnanimously means generously, rising above resentment; the fat man begs Margarita to be generous about his drunken mistake.

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    Question 11. What does 'deferentially' mean in: 'The goat-legged one deferentially inquired of Margarita'?

    • With cold, quiet suspicion
    • Correct answer: With polite, humble respect
    • With loud, cheerful mockery
    • With nervous, hasty fear

    Deferentially means with humble respect; the goat-legged one treats Margarita as a queen.

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    Question 12. Which of these events happen in Moscow in this chapter?

    • Margarita turns off the primuses of two quarrelling women.

      Happened

      Margarita climbs over the window-sill into the kitchen, reaches out between the two squabbling women and turns the knobs of both primuses, putting them out.

    • Latunsky comes home and catches Margarita in his study.

      Didn't happen

      Latunsky never appears: no one is home, and the narrator says he should be grateful that Berlioz's memorial gathering was set for that very evening.

    • Margarita hits the chandelier as she rises on her broom in Latunsky's flat.

      Happened

      When Quant's housekeeper starts ringing at the door, Margarita rises on her broom about a metre and hits the chandelier, popping two bulbs.

    • Margarita sets fire to the bookcase in Latunsky's study.

      Didn't happen

      She sets no fire: she smashes the door of the bookcase in the study with her hammer and pours water into the desk drawers.

    • A man on the fourth floor pulls on a gas mask in panic.

      Happened

      Flying past the penultimate window of the fourth floor, she sees a man who has pulled on a gas mask in panic and scares him off with her hammer.

    • Policemen arrest the doorman for the broken windows.

      Didn't happen

      No one arrests the doorman: he whistles furiously along with every blow, and policemen are only seen among the crowd on the glass-strewn pavement.

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    Question 13. Which of these events happen after Margarita leaves Moscow?

    • Natasha rides a hog that clutches a briefcase in his front hoofs.

      Happened

      Natasha comes abreast of Margarita astride a fat hog who clutches a briefcase in his front hoofs, and Margarita recognizes the hog as Nikolai Ivanovich.

    • Margarita refuses to help Natasha stay a witch.

      Didn't happen

      She agrees: when Natasha begs her to intercede so that she can stay a witch, Margarita answers that she promises.

    • Margarita throws herself head first into a warm river.

      Happened

      Margarita leaps off the chalk cliff, casts the broom aside and throws herself head first into the river, whose water turns out to be warm as in a bathhouse.

    • The fat man comes back in full evening dress, wet from head to foot.

      Happened

      The fat man comes back wet from head to foot but in full evening dress, and the narrator says he had apparently managed to get to the Yenisey and back.

    • Margarita rides her broom the rest of the way back to Moscow.

      Didn't happen

      She does not ride the broom back: the goat-legged one calls for a car, and she races to Moscow in an open sorrel car driven by a rook.

    • Margarita drinks a glass of cognac with the fat man.

      Didn't happen

      She drinks no cognac with him: it is the goat-legged one who offers her a glass of champagne, while the cognac is the fat man's own trouble.

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