In The Master and Margarita, Behemoth is a cat. He is an enormous black demonic werecat who speaks, walks on two legs, and sometimes takes on a human form.
Behemoth belongs to Woland’s supernatural entourage and serves as its comic troublemaker and jester. He is associated with outrageous jokes, disorder, violence, chess, vodka, and pistols. His antics include causing chaos in Moscow and helping set fire to Griboedov’s House, a meeting place for the city’s literary elite.
The character’s name carries several layers of meaning. In Russian, begemot means hippopotamus, while the biblical Behemoth is a monstrous creature associated with immense, mysterious power. That contrast helps explain the character’s absurd appearance: he is catlike, but unusually huge and dangerous. Although he can become human-shaped, the canonical answer to the quiz question is cat.