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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 was Akiko's job prior to getting married?

2. What is the main audience of the show?

3. Jane decides to go out drinking so that she will not have to think about the interview with Ms. Helen. What happens after the interview?

4. Initially, what causes Jane to worry about the casting of the show?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jane have her production assistant take John to a strip club?

2. What is the next interesting group that Jane wants to film?

3. Why did the FDA decide to outlaw this drug for animals?

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

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

6. Just as Jane thinks she is getting herself into a serious relationship with Sloan, what happens?

7. Ultimately, what does Jane want to show on My American Wife!?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jane's mixed ethnicity make her the perfect producer for My American Wife!?

Why does it end up being the reason she clashes with her employers?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the character Sloan.

-How does this character change throughout the novel?

-Has the character grown into a man?

-Name some roadblocks to his journey.

Essay Topic 3

Ozeki uses parallel story lines between Akiko and Jane. How does the author use this technique to move her plot forward?

Does she use the technique successfully?

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