The Master and Margarita, Chapter 28: The Last Adventures of Koroviev and Behemoth quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What price does the salesgirl give Koroviev for the mandarins?

   • Correct answer: Fifteen kopecks a pound
   • Fifty kopecks a dozen
   • Three kopecks a pound
   • Ten kopecks apiece

   She says fifteen kopecks a pound; Koroviev later tells the crowd the mandarin Behemoth sampled was worth three kopecks.

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   Question 2. What name does Koroviev write in the Griboedov ledger?

   • Dostoevsky
   • Correct answer: Skabichevsky
   • Panaev
   • Petrakov-Sukhovey

   Koroviev gives the name Panaev aloud but writes Skabichevsky, while Behemoth writes Panaev, swapping the names they gave.

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   Question 3. When the lilac foreigner swings around, what does the narrator say Behemoth got wrong about his face?

   • It was not foreign at all, but a plain Moscow clerk's face
   • It was not bald at all, as his hat had made it seem
   • Correct answer: It lacked nothing; it had jowls and furtive eyes to spare
   • It was not stern at all, but timid and kindly underneath

   Behemoth had said the face lacked something, but it turned out to have a superfluity of hanging jowls and furtive eyes.

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   Question 4. According to eyewitnesses afterward, what happened to the two hooligans in the currency store?

   • They ran out the rear exit behind the fish clerks
   • They walked out through the shattered mirrored doors
   • They hid in the herring barrel until the police left
   • Correct answer: They flew up to the ceiling and popped like balloons

   Eyewitnesses claimed they flew to the ceiling and popped like children's balloons, which the narrator calls doubtful.

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   Question 5. Why does Archibald Archibaldovich expect his visitors' dinner to be very short?

   • A waiter tells him the police are on their way
   • Correct answer: His intuition and his knowledge of recent events
   • Sofya Pavlovna warns him about the two strangers
   • Boba Kandalupsky whispers the Sadovaya news to him

   The narrator credits his knowledge of the latest events and, above all, his phenomenal intuition, which had never yet deceived him.

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   Question 6. Whom does Boba Kandalupsky fail to notice while he whispers his story to the Petrakovs?

   • Archibald Archibaldovich listening from the trellis
   • Sofya Pavlovna, who repeats whatever she overhears
   • Correct answer: The very two men he describes, sitting next to him
   • The armed men waiting in the inner passage

   Boba goes on hissing about Sadovaya without suspecting that the people he is talking about are at the next table, enjoying his yarn.

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   Question 7. How does the crowd in the currency store react to Koroviev's speech?

   • They hurry out of the store in alarm the moment he starts shouting
   • They side with Pavel Yosifovich and shake with wrath at the pair
   • They laugh him out of the store before the police can arrive
   • Correct answer: Strange as it may seem, it stirs sympathy in a great many of them

   Koroviev contrasts the hungry man with no currency against the lilac customer stuffed with salmon and currency, and, "strange as it may seem," the crowd's eyes show sympathy in a great many people.

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   Question 8. Where is Archibald Archibaldovich at the very end of the chapter?

   • Correct answer: Outside, standing calmly with two balyks under his arm
   • On the veranda, ordering the waiters to fight the fire
   • In the pantry, locked in with the restaurant's money
   • On the boulevard, pointing the police after the pair

   Having slipped out through a side entrance beforehand, he stands calmly in his summer coat, like a captain last to leave his burning brig, with the balyks under his arm.

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   Question 9. Which of these events actually occur in Chapter 28?

   • Koroviev threatens to complain about the doorman to the manager.

     Happened

     At the door Koroviev warns the doorman that he will complain about him to the manager and tell such tales that he may lose his post.

   • Pavel Yosifovich chases the pair out of the store with a knife.

     Didn't happen

     Pavel Yosifovich never chases them with a knife: he orders a whistle for the police, and then the fleeing public runs him down.

   • The lilac foreigner escapes by climbing over the salmon on the counter.

     Happened

     Drenched with herring juice, the lilac foreigner climbs out of the barrel, heaves himself over the salmon on the counter and follows the clerks out.

   • Sofya Pavlovna admits the pair once they show their writers' cards.

     Didn't happen

     The pair show no cards at all; Sofya Pavlovna lets them in only when Archibald Archibaldovich tells her to let them pass.

   • A waiter offers Behemoth a match for a cigarette butt.

     Happened

     Once the waiters see how their chief treats the guests, one offers a match to Behemoth, who has put a cigarette butt in his mouth.

   • Mrs Petrakov believes Boba's story and leaves before the shooting.

     Didn't happen

     Mrs Petrakov calls Boba's story lies spread by liars, and she runs off with the others only after the shooting, leaving her dinner unfinished.

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    Question 10. What does 'perfidious' mean as used in: 'But the perfidious Behemoth doused the confectionery counter'?

    • Greedy and ravenously hungry
    • Frightened and panicky
    • Clumsy and careless
    • Correct answer: Treacherous and deceitful

    Perfidious means treacherous; Behemoth, who had just been playing the poor sufferer, suddenly sets the store on fire.

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    Question 11. What does 'bellicose' mean as used in: 'His eyes flashed with bellicose fire'?

    • Deeply ashamed
    • Quietly amused
    • Correct answer: Eager to fight
    • Close to weeping

    Bellicose means warlike or eager to fight, which fits the meek old man who suddenly attacks the foreigner with a tray.

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    Question 12. What does 'pernicious' mean as used in Mrs Petrakov's cry, 'Such pernicious lies!'?

    • Correct answer: Harmful and destructive
    • Clever and amusing
    • Silly and harmless
    • Old and familiar

    Pernicious means harmful in a subtle or spreading way; she treats Boba's rumors as dangerous, not merely false.

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