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

2. What is one title for one of the columns in Anna's black notebook?
(a) Clothes.
(b) Money.
(c) Pets.
(d) Love.

3. What does the second company think of the racial theme of her novel?
(a) They do not accept books with this theme, but will anyway.
(b) They have no problem with the theme.
(c) They will accept it if she changes it to gender relations.
(d) They do not accept books with this theme.

4. What does Anna assume about her new roommate?
(a) That she is a good person.
(b) That he is a good person.
(c) That he likes her.
(d) That he is cheating on her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who moves in with Anna in 'Blue Notebook'?

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

3. Who is in jail in 'Red Notebook'?

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

5. Who is Ella's boyfriend?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Anna use the black notebook to recount her experiences in Africa?

2. What does Anna realize about her African experience in 'Black Notebook'?

3. What is happening between Richard and Marion in Free Women: 1?

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

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

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

7. How is the first company's proposal for Anna's novel to turn it into a movie insulting to her?

8. What is the novel about Africa about?

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

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

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