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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Anna disgusted in 'Red Notebook'?
(a) That she let Tommy hurt himself.
(b) That she feel in love with Richard.
(c) That she thought she was a good writer.
(d) That she would think the Community Party would ever change.

2. What does Anna begin to record in the last 'Yellow Notebook'?
(a) Ideas for short stories and novels.
(b) Songs.
(c) Ideas for songs.
(d) Poems.

3. What is Anna on a quest for in this novel?
(a) Her long lost family.
(b) Love.
(c) Happiness.
(d) Wholeness.

4. Who asks Ella if she plans to attend a party?
(a) Julia.
(b) Molly.
(c) Anna.
(d) Marion.

5. How does Ella feel when she is on a break from her boyfriend?
(a) Happy.
(b) Melancholy.
(c) Angry.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna get chided about from her friend in Chapter 1?

2. The last 'Red Notebook' deals with a conversation between whom?

3. Why is Julia upset in 'Yellow Notebook'?

4. Why does someone beg Molly not to send those pages of the red notebook?

5. What does the man in Ella's novel want to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Anna stop writing in her diary?

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

4. Why does Molly agree not to send in Anna's doubts about the Communist Party?

5. What is the sign in the last 'Yellow Notebook' that Anna has lost her writer's block?

6. In Free Women: 1, why is Richard worried about Tommy?

7. What are Anna's ideas for novels and short stories in the last 'Yellow Notebook' based on?

8. What happens when a magazine requests pages from Anna's journal?

9. What does Ella decide about affairs in 'Yellow Notebook'?

10. What reason does Michael have to cry in his sleep, as described in 'Red Notebook'?

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