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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nurse Tomoko help Akiko?
(a) She helps her change her appearance.
(b) She gives her money to go to America.
(c) She helps deliver her baby.
(d) She gets the doctor to extend her stay at the hospital.

2. How does Akiko get even with John?
(a) She takes all the money out of her and John's bank account.
(b) She exposes him for the alcoholic and drunk he is.
(c) She kills him.
(d) She tells everyone he knows about the abuse.

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

4. Where is Akiko able to find acceptance?
(a) From her new baby.
(b) From Jane and Jane's friends.
(c) From Lara.
(d) From her husband.

5. What does Akiko arrange to do?
(a) Meet a new man.
(b) Take a vacation.
(c) Fly to America while John is away.
(d) Find her family.

6. What is the next step in Jane and Sloan's relationship?
(a) They need to spend time reconnecting.
(b) They will move in together.
(c) They will go to couple's counseling.
(d) They need to break up.

7. How does Akiko act at the beginning of the novel?
(a) Confused and lonely.
(b) Tired and old.
(c) Subservient and timid.
(d) Emotionally repressed.

8. What other bad news does Jane receive?
(a) Sloan has cheated on her.
(b) Her father left her.
(c) She learns her mother died.
(d) Jane learns that she has lost her job.

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

10. While Jane's personal life is becoming very happy, what is happening to her career?
(a) She will have to change careers soon.
(b) It is also going well.
(c) It is coasting and no improvements have been made.
(d) It is spinning out of control.

11. In this section, what continues to increase?
(a) Greed.
(b) Happiness.
(c) The crew's need to succeed.
(d) Suspense in the novel.

12. Meanwhile, what is happening to Akiko?
(a) She runs to her husband.
(b) She passes out in the bathroom from her injuries.
(c) She is going to die.
(d) She kills John for beating her.

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

14. What does the reader feel for Jane as this section of the book draws to a close?
(a) Anger.
(b) Grief.
(c) Rage.
(d) Confusion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has become of Jane's outlook on life?

2. What does Jane find in the trash?

3. Of what does Jane inform Gale?

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

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

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