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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 gives Jane the advantage to create the show?

2. Why is Jane excited to get a call from a television producer?

3. What two cultures make up Jane Takagi-Little?

4. Of whom is Akiko a fan?

5. Why does she decide not to send this item?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is John becoming controlling and temperamental about Akiko's visits to the bathroom?

2. How else does John try to take out his aggression?

3. What are the negative affects of the hormone known as diethylstilbestrol or DES?

4. What does the reader begin to suspect about Jane?

5. On what type of women do the Japanese ad executives wish to focus?

6. Why is Jane excited about her new love affair?

7. Why does Jane hesitate to send Suzie the tape?

8. When Purcell stops eating chicken parts, what happens?

9. Why is Jane suddenly allowed more creative control over the show?

10. Unfortunately for Akiko, what happens to her when John finds out she has purposefully become infertile?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Akiko

Jane

John

Lara

Essay Topic 2

Akiko seems to seek happiness that money and status cannot buy.

For what sort of happiness does she strive?

Does she think she will be able to create it without her husband?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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