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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, The Rice-Sprouting Month.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who will cook for this episode?
(a) Joy, the daughter.
(b) Gina, the wife.
(c) Alison, the pregnant daughter.
(d) Vern, the husband.

2. In Japan, with what is Akiko bored?
(a) Seeing all the same society ladies.
(b) Trying to have a baby.
(c) Traveling with her husband.
(d) Trying to write an article about pregnancy.

3. What is a kuduz?
(a) A plant native to Japan that is planted in the Southern states to keep it from eroding away.
(b) A plant that is very similar to cotton. The family grows it.
(c) A plant like sugar cane.
(d) A type of plant that has healing properties.

4. What does Akiko's husband ask her to watch?
(a) Japanese Food Network.
(b) American Food Network.
(c) My American Wife!
(d) My Japanese Wife.

5. What gives Jane the advantage to create the show?
(a) Her dual ethnicities.
(b) She is a woman.
(c) She is a housewife.
(d) She is very smart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What else upsets Akiko's husband?

2. Unfortunately, who is trying to control Jane?

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

4. Why does Jane think that they should not have to use condoms?

5. What does her husband admit to have been doing?

(see the answer key)

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