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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. About whom does Jane hope to make an episode of My American Wife!?

2. What else upsets Akiko's husband?

3. What is the name of the reality show?

4. After accepting the job, what is Jane feeling?

5. As Jane leaves the first wife in her bedroom, how does she feel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the good news concerning the Bukowskys?

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

3. Why is the Japanese crew having an issue filming the American couple?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Describe what a literary foil is.

Are Akiko and Jane literary foils of one another?

Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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