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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 word(s) describe how Anna sees her world?

2. What does Anna realize about her novel in the black notebook and its readers?

3. What does the company think of the extra-martial affairs in her novel?

4. What is the journal entry involving Janet about in 'Blue Notebook'?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the fear that Anna expresses to Mrs. Marks in 'Blue Notebook'.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the meaning of the second dream recorded by Anna in 'Black Notebook'?

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

9. Why is Molly dismayed after attending a Community Party meeting with young people?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

How do Anna and Molly become distrustful of the Communist Party, and why do they consider leaving the party? What leads to these feelings? Were they justified?

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