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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 is causing all of the disfigurements in Gale and Rose?

2. What is typical for a Japanese woman?

3. While at the farm, about what does Jane become worried?

4. When the authorities begin calling because of the meat and hormone abuse, whose number are they instructed to call?

5. After meeting up with Jane, who does Akiko wish to see?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do things turn around for Jane?

2. What do Jane and Akiko have in common?

3. As Jane wakes up from the hospital, what does she feel?

4. Why does Akiko become aggressive with John and bite him?

5. Why does Bunny Dunn decide to tell her husband about the hormones?

6. As Jane walks about the feedlot in Coloardo, how does she feel?

7. What does Akiko think of Jane?

8. As the book progresses, what is happening to Akiko?

9. When Akiko sees the episode about the lesbians, how does she feel?

10. Why is Jane happy about Suzie Flowers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does John abuse Akiko without hitting her?

Is it possible for a person to be psychologically abused?

Explain why or why not using examples from the novel.

Essay Topic 2

What is the stereotypical ideal of the perfect American housewife? How does Jane work to break this image for both Japanese and Americans?

Are many Americans slow to let go of the ideal?

Is this hesitation seen in America's reluctance to legalize same sex marriage?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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