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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the information in the yellow notebook?

2. In 'Black Notebook', what does Anna's novel have to do with?

3. What does Anna assume about her new roommate?

4. Why is Anna disgusted in 'Red Notebook'?

5. Does Molly ever send those pages of the red notebook?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the fear that Anna expresses to Mrs. Marks in 'Blue Notebook'.

2. Describe Anna's emotions in response to the reaction of the novel "Frontiers of War".

3. How does Anna retaliate against the attempts to simplify her novel when making it into a movie?

4. What is the novel about Africa about?

5. Why does Ella feel completely alone in the last 'Yellow Notebook'?

6. What is the meaning of the second dream recorded by Anna in 'Black Notebook'?

7. Describe the conversation in 'Red Notebook' between Anna and Jimmy.

8. Why is Ella disillusioned and depressed after Paris?

9. What happens when Paul invites Ella for a drive?

10. Why does Anna put the newspaper clippings in her notebook, and what are they about?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the significance and symbolism about Anna's dream in 'Red Notebook'.

Essay Topic 2

Describe Ella's insight about free women towards the end of the novel. What does she realize about being a free woman in the world of married men? Why do you think she finally had this powerful thought? How will it change her actions? Should she have realized this earlier in her life?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Ella and Anna, and the emptiness of their lives. How are their depressions similar?

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