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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. Whom is Anna disgusted with in 'Red Notebook'?

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

3. What is one title for one of the columns in Anna's black notebook?

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

5. Who is Janet?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Paul invites Ella for a drive?

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

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

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

5. Why does Anna stop writing in her diary?

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

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

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

9. Why is Ella disillusioned and depressed after Paris?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast two company offers to buy the rights to Anna's book. How are they alike? How are they different?

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

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?

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