The Master and Margarita, Chapter 24: The Extraction of the Master quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. Which playing card does Koroviev take out for Azazello's shooting demonstration?

   • A queen of diamonds
   • A nine of clubs
   • Correct answer: A seven of spades
   • An ace of hearts

   Koroviev takes a seven of spades from the desk drawer and has Margarita mark one pip with her fingernail.

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   Question 2. What does Behemoth claim he once lived on while lost in the wilderness for nineteen days?

   • Pineapple with salt and pepper
   • Oysters spread with mustard
   • Caviar and pure alcohol
   • Correct answer: The meat of a tiger he killed

   He tells the story to prove that tiger can be eaten; everyone answers in chorus that it is bunk.

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   Question 3. Who heals Hella's finger after Behemoth's bullet goes through it?

   • Azazello, with a cream
   • Correct answer: Koroviev, by blowing on it
   • Behemoth, by licking it
   • Woland, by touching it

   Once Hella and the cat are pulled apart, Koroviev blows on her bullet-pierced finger and it mends.

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   Question 4. When Margarita rises to leave, about what time does she reckon it is?

   • Correct answer: Getting on towards six
   • Around three o'clock
   • Close to nine at night
   • Just past midnight

   By all tokens it was getting on towards six in the morning, which is why the midnight moon later surprises her.

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   Question 5. Why does Woland say he will not pardon Frieda himself?

   • He says Margarita must have been bribed
   • Correct answer: He says it is another department's affair
   • He says the ball's rules forbid all pardons
   • He says Frieda's crime is beyond all pardon

   Each department must look after its own affairs, Woland says, so Margarita must pardon Frieda herself.

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   Question 6. How does Woland react when the master says his novel is about Pontius Pilate?

   • He angrily orders the master to leave
   • He weeps and covers his face
   • Correct answer: He bursts into thunderous laughter
   • He falls into a long, grave silence

   The candles leap and the dishes clatter as Woland laughs, then asks why the master could not find another subject.

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   Question 7. What did Aloisy Mogarych's denunciation accuse the master of?

   • Insulting the critic Latunsky
   • Spying for a foreign power
   • Hiding foreign currency
   • Correct answer: Keeping illegal literature

   After reading Latunsky's article, Mogarych wrote that the master kept illegal literature, hoping to move into his rooms.

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   Question 8. How does Azazello get the horseshoe back from Annushka?

   • Correct answer: He squeezes her throat until she gives it up
   • He threatens to report her to the police
   • He pays her two hundred roubles up front
   • He tricks her into thinking it is a fake

   Annushka plays dumb until he chokes her; only after she hands it over does he thank her and give her two hundred roubles.

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   Question 9. Which of these events happen in Woland's bedroom after the ball?

   • Margarita marks the pip in the upper right-hand corner of the card.

     Happened

     Margarita marks the pip in the upper right-hand corner of the seven of spades, and Azazello's bullet later goes through it.

   • Behemoth hits both of the pips marked for him.

     Didn't happen

     Behemoth's two shots kill the owl, stop the clock and wound Hella's finger; no pip is hit except the one Azazello shot through.

   • Margarita asks Azazello to go and punish the critic Latunsky.

     Didn't happen

     Azazello offers to go to Latunsky himself, but Margarita cries out no and begs Woland that there is no need for it.

   • Natasha is allowed to remain a witch.

     Happened

     Natasha begs to stay a witch, and when Margarita looks to Woland, he nods; Natasha then flies out the window.

   • Woland cures the master with a single touch of his hand.

     Didn't happen

     On Woland's order Koroviev gives the master something to drink, and after a second glass the master's eyes become alive and intelligent.

   • Aloisy Mogarych is thrown out through the open window.

     Happened

     After Azazello questions him about his denunciation, Mogarych is turned upside down and leaves Woland's bedroom through the open window.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen as Margarita and the master leave?

    • Koroviev bows and disappears at the door of the apartment.

      Happened

      At the door of the apartment Koroviev makes his bows and disappears, while the rest of the retinue goes downstairs with the couple.

    • Woland himself escorts the couple down to the car.

      Didn't happen

      Woland says goodbye to Margarita in his bedroom; his retinue, not he, accompanies the couple down to the courtyard.

    • Hella carries the suitcase holding the novel.

      Happened

      When they leave the corridor, Hella carries the suitcase with the novel and Margarita's few possessions, and the cat helps her.

    • Annushka returns the horseshoe the moment she finds it.

      Didn't happen

      Annushka hides the horseshoe in her bosom and plays dumb; she gives it up only after Azazello squeezes her throat.

    • A rook drives the big black car out onto Sadovaya.

      Happened

      The rook turns on the lights and drives the car out through the gates, and its lights disappear among the other lights on Sadovaya.

    • In the basement, the master sleeps covered with his hospital robe.

      Happened

      An hour later, in the basement off the Arbat, the master lies in a deep sleep on a sofa, covered with the hospital robe.

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    Question 11. What does 'perfidiously' mean in Woland's remark that mercy creeps 'quite unexpectedly and perfidiously, through the narrowest cracks'?

    • Joyfully and with a loud noise
    • Gently and with great patience
    • Openly and without any warning
    • Correct answer: Treacherously and deceitfully

    Perfidiously means treacherously; Woland speaks of mercy as an intruder that slips in where it is not wanted.

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    Question 12. What does 'importunate' mean in the line 'someone's importunate, imploring voice cried in her ears'?

    • Cheerful and full of good humor
    • Commanding and used to obedience
    • Correct answer: Persistent to the point of annoyance
    • Faint and very difficult to make out clearly

    Importunate means insistently pressing; Frieda's voice will not let Margarita forget the hope she gave her.

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    Question 13. What does 'inveterate' mean in Woland's phrase 'that inveterate blackguard of a baron'?

    • Recently arrived from some foreign country
    • Correct answer: Long-established and unlikely to change
    • Cowardly and easily frightened off
    • Wealthy and widely admired at court

    Inveterate describes a settled, habitual character; Woland means the baron was a scoundrel through and through.

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