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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 does Ms. Helen want to make for the show?

2. What else upsets Akiko's husband?

3. What does John think of chitterlings?

4. Where will this Japanese reality show be shown?

5. How does Jane get back at John?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. After the initial happiness of getting a new job, why is Jane reluctant to take the position?

5. How did Akiko and John meet?

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

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

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

9. What surprises Suzie Flower during her sociological survey?

10. What will help Akiko to gain weight and get her body ready to have a baby?

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 the book draws to a close, the reader concludes that both Jane and Akiko are survivors.

Against what are the two women survivors?

Although their cultures are different, what makes them survivors?

Essay Topic 3

The only way John can feel pleasure or become aroused with a woman is if he is subduing her. Is this statement true or false?

If true, give three examples proving the truth of the statement.

If false, give three examples of how this statement is false.

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