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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 Jane find in the trash?

2. In America, what does Akiko think she will do?

3. What happens to the ratings?

4. While at the farm, about what does Jane become worried?

5. Why does the doctor think that Jane lost the baby?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do things turn around for Jane?

2. As Jane wakes up from the hospital, what does she feel?

3. Although Akiko is not yet in the clear, what does she feel about her life?

4. How does Jane begin to see John?

5. What will be Jane's most important episode?

6. Why does Gale seem so aggressive?

7. How does Jane help Akiko start her life in America?

8. Why does Bunny Dunn decide to tell her husband about the hormones?

9. What does Akiko think of Jane?

10. Why does Jane feel so upset about her life?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, how are Japanese wives expected to act?

Why does Akiko increasingly feel the need to always please everyone around her?

Is it because of the way Japanese women are raised?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the character Sloan.

-How does this character change throughout the novel?

-Has the character grown into a man?

-Name some roadblocks to his journey.

Essay Topic 3

Many people believe that if two people are married, a partner in the relationship cannot be raped even if they are forced into sexual intercourse. Use Akiko's story to prove this theory false.

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