The Master and Margarita, Chapter 30: It's Time! It's Time! quiz

Questions and answers

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   Question 1. What does Margarita say she was reading about just as the master fell asleep the night before?

   • The moonlit road along which the procurator walked in his dream
   • The trial of the wandering philosopher before the procurator
   • Correct answer: The darkness that came from the Mediterranean Sea and the golden idols
   • The execution on the hill outside the city walls at noon

   She says she was reading about the darkness from the Mediterranean and the golden idols, which never leave her in peace, and then adds that she thinks it is going to rain.

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   Question 2. What is new about the master's appearance as he sits in the basement at sunset?

   • He wears a black cloak like the one Margarita has thrown on
   • He has put on the suit that was waiting in his wardrobe
   • His hair has turned completely white since the night of the ball
   • Correct answer: He is clean-shaven for the first time since that autumn night

   The narrator notes he is clean-shaven for the first time since that autumn night; in the clinic his beard had only been cut with clippers.

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   Question 3. How does the master secretly test whether Azazello is real?

   • Correct answer: He quietly pinches his own left hand under the table
   • He pours the cognac into his glass to see if it is real
   • He asks Azazello to repeat what Woland said at the ball
   • He nudges Margarita's leg to see whether she notices him

   He pinches his own left hand under the table, but Azazello does not melt into air, and the master begins to accept that a devil's messenger sits before him.

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   Question 4. When Azazello praises how quickly the lovers accept Woland's invitation, what earlier meeting does he contrast it with?

   • The supper on the veranda at Griboedov's
   • Correct answer: That time in the Alexandrovsky Garden
   • The night of the show at the Variety
   • The talk on the bench at Patriarch's Ponds

   He exclaims, Not like that time in the Alexandrovsky Garden, and Margarita admits she was stupid then because one does not meet unclean powers every day.

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   Question 5. Where does Azazello go first once the poisoned lovers lie still?

   • To the terrace where Woland is waiting for news
   • Correct answer: To the house where Margarita Nikolaevna lived
   • To Stravinsky's clinic to look in on room 118
   • To the yard where three black steeds are waiting

   He rushes to Margarita's house to make sure everything is in order, and watches a gloomy woman call for Natasha and fall to the floor.

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   Question 6. How does Azazello start the fire in the basement?

   • He snaps his fingers and the curtains burst into flame at once
   • He pours the rest of the Falernian wine over the papers
   • He strikes a match and drops it onto the pile of manuscripts
   • Correct answer: He pulls a smoking brand from the stove and lights the tablecloth

   Azazello thrusts his clawed hand into the stove, pulls out a smoking brand and sets fire to the tablecloth, then the newspapers, manuscripts and curtain.

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   Question 7. What do the riders see below them that is all that remains of a well-known Moscow building?

   • Correct answer: Smoke, all that remained of Griboedov House
   • Rubble, all that remained of the Variety Theatre
   • Ashes, all that remained of the currency store
   • Embers, all that remained of Apartment No. 50

   They fly over smoke, all that remained of Griboedov House, before the roofs give way to greenery and the rain pours down.

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   Question 8. How do the master and Margarita get into Ivan's room at the clinic?

   • Through a window that the storm has blown wide open
   • Through the wall, melting in as they had melted out
   • Correct answer: Through the balcony grille, which the master pushes aside
   • Through the door, which a nurse has left open for them

   The master, with an accustomed hand, pushes aside the balcony grille of room 117, and they step in unseen in the noise of the storm.

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   Question 9. Why does the master choose Ivan as the one person to bid farewell to?

   • Ivan alone knows where the manuscript was hidden
   • Ivan had promised to keep the novel safe for him
   • Correct answer: Ivan is the only person he has talked with lately
   • Woland ordered him to give Ivan a final message

   He tells Ivan he has come because Ivan is the only person he has talked with lately; the narrator adds he had no one else to bid farewell to.

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    Question 10. Which of these events happen in Chapter 30?

    • A man in pinstriped trousers calls through the window asking for Aloisy.

      Happened

      A voice above a pair of pinstriped trousers in the window asks whether Aloisy is home, and its owner vanishes when Margarita asks his name.

    • The master puts on his old clothes before Azazello arrives.

      Didn't happen

      The master never gets dressed: he stays in his hospital underwear, and Azazello later laughs at him for sitting in a shirt and hospital drawers.

    • Azazello places a package wrapped in dark brocade by the stove.

      Happened

      Before sitting down at the table, Azazello places a package wrapped in dark brocade in the corner by the stove; the jug of Falernian wine later comes out of it.

    • Margarita takes the manuscript of the novel with her on the ride.

      Didn't happen

      Margarita begs him to take the novel along, but the master says there is no need because he remembers it by heart, and Azazello sets fire to the manuscripts.

    • The master cuts his temple on the corner of his desk as he falls.

      Happened

      After drinking the Falernian wine, the master falls backwards and cuts the skin of his temple on the corner of his desk.

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    Question 11. Which of these events happen at the clinic in Chapter 30?

    • Ivan promises he will not write any more poems.

      Happened

      Ivan tells the master he will keep his word and write no more poems, because he wants to write something else now.

    • Ivan begs the master to take him along on the ride.

      Didn't happen

      Ivan never asks to go along; he asks whether the master met him, and whether he found her and she stayed faithful to him.

    • Margarita kisses Ivan and promises that all will be as it should.

      Happened

      Margarita bends down and kisses Ivan, telling him that everything will be as it should be with him.

    • Praskovya Fyodorovna calls for Professor Stravinsky at once.

      Didn't happen

      Praskovya Fyodorovna only offers to call the doctor, and Ivan tells her that she needn't call the doctor.

    • Ivan guesses that a woman has also just died in the city.

      Happened

      After Praskovya Fyodorovna whispers that his neighbor has just passed away, Ivan says another person has just died in the city, and that it is a woman.

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    Question 12. What does 'adroitly' mean in: "He drank his cognac adroitly, too"?

    • Greedily and without any manners
    • Correct answer: Skillfully and with practised ease
    • Secretly, while no one was looking
    • Slowly and with obvious reluctance

    Adroitly means skillfully; the narrator adds that Azazello drinks as all good people do, by the glassful and without nibbling.

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    Question 13. What does 'furtive' mean in: "her eyes became furtive"?

    • Wide open with sudden alarm
    • Tearful and full of sympathy
    • Hard and cold with displeasure
    • Correct answer: Shifty, as if hiding something

    Furtive means secretive and evasive; Praskovya Fyodorovna is trying to hide that the patient in room 118 has died.

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    Question 14. What does 'precipitously' mean in: "The dark cloud flew precipitously to meet the fliers"?

    • Correct answer: Suddenly and at headlong speed
    • Gently and almost without sound
    • Unevenly, in scattered pieces
    • Heavily, weighed down by rain

    Precipitously means very suddenly and fast, as the storm cloud rushes at the riders over Moscow.

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