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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 does Anna realize about her breakup with Michael?

2. Who begs Molly not to send those pages of the red notebook?

3. What does it mean if a Communist man gets married?

4. Who is Ella's son?

5. In what part of 'Black Notebook' does Anna dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Anna react to Saul moving in with her?

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

3. What is Anna scared when she reads her notebooks again in 'Blue Notebook'?

4. How does Anna feel after Michael doesn't show up at her home when she prepares dinner for both of them?

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

6. What is noteworthy about the way Richard eats strawberries Free Women: 1?

7. What does marriage mean in the Communist Party?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze Anna's final journal entry and the meaning of the dream about the casket.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast Anna's feelings about her own writing in the beginning of the novel and at the end. What spurs this change? How does it manifest itself?

Essay Topic 3

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

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