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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Akiko and Jane begin their connection?
(a) Through a reality television show.
(b) Through email.
(c) Through losing a baby.
(d) A phone call.

2. What is the knockout tank?
(a) Where people who have dispustes duke it out.
(b) Where they hit people who know too much.
(c) Where they hit the cows over the head and then slice their necks.
(d) Where boxers meet.

3. Of the two new families Jane picks, what is one of the husband's professions?
(a) He works in a pork plant.
(b) He works in a meat processing plant.
(c) He works in the office of a processing plant.
(d) He works in a chicken processing plant.

4. What has become of Jane's outlook on life?
(a) She is sad.
(b) She is pessimistic.
(c) She is happy.
(d) She is confused.

5. What is typical for a Japanese woman?
(a) To go back to their families when they have upset their husbands.
(b) To have trouble having babies.
(c) To be subservient to their husbands.
(d) To hate their husbands.

6. Despite their diverse backgrounds, in what way are Jane and Akiko alike?
(a) Being young.
(b) Being survivors
(c) Their love of life.
(d) Their quest for life.

7. To whom does Bunny show Jane's documentary?
(a) John Dunn.
(b) Her daughter.
(c) Gale Dunn.
(d) Her mother.

8. About what does Akiko warn Jane?
(a) John will be coming to Colorado to supervise the show.
(b) Her husband is planning to ruin Jane's career.
(c) Akiko is coming to America.
(d) John will try to rape Jane again.

9. What seems to have happened between Akiko and Jane?
(a) They have become best friends.
(b) They have changed their personalities.
(c) They are bosom buddies.
(d) Their luck in life has swapped places.

10. What has Oh discovered about the family they are interviewing?
(a) Bunny looks like she is suffering from estrogen poisoning.
(b) John has been poisoned.
(c) Gale has breasts.
(d) The five year old, Rose, has breasts.

11. What does Jane think about Sloan's offer to giver her money?
(a) He does not want a baby but wants her.
(b) He is not interested in a future with her.
(c) He does not love her.
(d) He wants to protect her.

12. What does Bunny allow the crew to do?
(a) Film Rose's naked body.
(b) Film Rose fully clothed.
(c) Film Gale naked.
(d) Film Gale fully clothed.

13. What does Jane find in the trash?
(a) A container of lard.
(b) Cow parts.
(c) A vial of Lutalyse.
(d) Chicken parts.

14. What does Jane want the Japanese housewives, hopefully, to learn?
(a) To be better wives.
(b) To cook good American food for their husbands.
(c) That they would have better lives in America.
(d) The truth behind the Japanese meat industry.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Jane's mother try to console her?

2. Meanwhile, what is happening to Akiko?

3. Why is Jane so outraged about the meat industry?

4. What happens to John at the end of the book?

5. When the authorities begin calling because of the meat and hormone abuse, whose number are they instructed to call?

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