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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. Where does Molly intend to send those pages of her doubts in 'Red Notebook'?
(a) To Richard.
(b) To the party.
(c) To Anna.
(d) To the American president.

2. Why is Ella no longer healthy in 'Yellow Notebook'?
(a) Because of Tommy's death.
(b) Because she is ill.
(c) Because her daughter died.
(d) Because Paul left her.

3. Whom was Max married to?
(a) Marion.
(b) Anna.
(c) Molly.
(d) Janet.

4. Whom is Tommy angry with in 'Blue Notebook'?
(a) Molly.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) Anna.

5. Who tells Anna she should start writing again?
(a) Richard.
(b) Mother Sugar.
(c) Marion.
(d) Molly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anna write about the Communist Party in the red notebook?

2. In 'Blue Notebook', what do Michael and Anna discuss?

3. Whom does Ella think about when she is out of town in 'Yellow Notebook'?

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

5. Whom does Molly ask about why they lied in 'Red Notebook'?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does Anna think the danger of Janet walking in on her and Michael represents, and how does it make her feel?

5. Why is the structure of this novel described as complex?

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

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

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

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

10. What sign does the reader have that Anna had been disillusioned for a while with the Communist Party?

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