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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 the man in Ella's novel want to do?

2. Who dreams of looking at the world from a distance in 'Red Notebook'?

3. Why is Ella no longer healthy in 'Yellow Notebook'?

4. What does the second company think of the racial theme of her novel?

5. What does Anna tell Mother Sugar in 'Blue Notebook'?

Short Essay Questions

1. What conflict does Ella have with Dr. West?

2. Why does Anna stop writing in her diary?

3. What does marriage mean in the Communist Party?

4. What is Anna's conclusion about the dream she had in 'Red Notebook'?

5. Why does Anna feel disillusioned despite all of the interest in her novel?

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

7. What happens in Anna's dream about the Russian peasant vase?

8. Why do Molly and Anna consider leaving the Communist Party in 'Red Notebook'?

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

10. What does Anna decide to do with her novel "Frontiers of War"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What side of Anna does 'Black Notebook' show the reader? What do we learn about her and her feelings about her talent?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the theme in this novel of whether women are better off married or single. Be sure to give examples with Anna and Molly as well as Richard's wife, Marion. How are their lives different or the same?

Essay Topic 3

Explain why Anna is in psychoanalysis with Mrs. Marks, and what Anna thinks of the process.

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