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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. What has happened towards the end of 'Blue Notebook' in Anna's sessions with Mother Sugar?
(a) She no longer goes to the sessions.
(b) She is the same.
(c) She is getting worse.
(d) She is getting better.

2. What is the name of the item that 'Yellow Notebook' deals with?
(a) "The Shadow of the Third".
(b) The Communist book.
(c) The red notebook.
(d) The golden notebook.

3. What does Tommy realize about his father in 'Blue Notebook'?
(a) That Marion is right.
(b) That his mother and Anna are right.
(c) That he doesn't know him.
(d) That his mother and Anna are wrong.

4. What does Anna abandon in the last 'Yellow Notebook'?
(a) Tommy.
(b) Her novel.
(c) Richard.
(d) Marion.

5. When Anna asks a question in the final entry of 'Black Notebook', how does she feel about the answer?
(a) She is satisfied.
(b) She doesn't have a response.
(c) It is unsatisfactory.
(d) She is ignored.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the addition to Anna's novel in 'Yellow Notebook'?

2. What is Ella busy trying to do in the beginning of 'Yellow Notebook'?

3. What is the name of the main character?

4. How is the structure of this book often described?

5. Why is Anna unsatisfied with the emotion in her entries in 'Blue Notebook'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Anna's dream involve before her final visit to Mrs. Marks?

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

3. What happens before Anna decides to keep one notebook in the 'Blue Notebook'?

4. Why is it odd that Anna signs up for the Communist Party?

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

6. How is the second company's idea insulting to Anna?

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

8. What does Ella think about suicide?

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

10. How does Anna hold herself back with her reaction to the filmmakers who want to buy her novel?

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