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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. How does Jane get back at John?

2. What will help Akiko regain her fertility?

3. What will this TV show hopefully make others do?

4. Why did this development happen?

5. Who does he think should be on the show?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Akiko become sad and bored in her home?

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

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

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

8. What is the good news concerning the Bukowskys?

9. Why does Akiko's husband want her to watch the show, My American Wife!?

10. Why does John angrily throw the pork chops across the room?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do Akiko and Jane create a relationship through communication?

How do these two women get to know each other without ever really seeing each other?

How has the internet changed the way people meet people and communicate with one another?

Essay Topic 2

As a filmmaker, Jane believes it is her job to tell the truth. Is this always the aim of filmmakers?

How can film be used as media propaganda?

How is Jane's own work almost turned into propaganda by the Japanese government?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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