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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 changes Jane's attitude about the baby?

2. Despite the loss of the baby, what has happened for Jane?

3. What does Bunny allow the crew to do?

4. What does Jane promise Grace?

5. What makes Sloan and Jane very happy when they spend a romantic night together?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What has Jane decided to do about the baby?

3. Why does Gale seem so aggressive?

4. Why does Akiko become aggressive with John and bite him?

5. How do things turn around for Jane?

6. Why is Jane arrested?

7. How do the two women's lives change?

8. What are some of the cruel practices that happen when cows are slaughtered?

9. As the book progresses, what is happening to Akiko?

10. What do Jane and Akiko have in common?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Create a character analysis for John Unero.

Discuss the extreme differences in his hypocritical personality.

How does he force his wife to abide by one set of codes while he abides by another?

Essay Topic 2

How does Ruth Ozeki portray Japanese men? Japanese business men?

Is she using a stereotypical model that she knows?

Is she too quick to judge this group of men?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how the following characters attempt to find their true happiness as the book progresses?

Akiko

Jane

John

Lara

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