View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, The Gods-Absent Month.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Akiko's husband wish for her to gain weight?
(a) So that she would be happier.
(b) She has gotten too skinny.
(c) So that she will be curvier.
(d) So that they can have children.

2. What is odd about this?
(a) Gale has been sick for some time.
(b) Rose has breasts, pubic hair, and has started her periods.
(c) Gale is growing breasts.
(d) Rose has begun to grow hair like a man.

3. For what does Sloan say he will give Jane money?
(a) Getting an abortion.
(b) Getting a plane ticket to see him.
(c) Having the baby.
(d) Going to the doctor.

4. In jail, what does Jane choose to tell Sloan?
(a) She wants to introduce him to her parents.
(b) She is going to travel abroad and thinks they should not see each other.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is going to give the baby up for adoption.

5. Finally, what does Akiko realize about a baby?
(a) She wants to have one, but not with John.
(b) She does not want a baby.
(c) She wants a baby at a later date.
(d) She hopes it will help unite her and John.

Short Answer Questions

1. Ruth L. Ozeki is a ____________ like her main character in her first novel.

2. In Japan, with what is Akiko bored?

3. What gives Jane the advantage to create the show?

4. What is one of the more personal questions that ruins the first wife's life?

5. Who decides that she cannot make this episode?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 309 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample