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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. Of the two new families Jane picks, what is one of the husband's professions?

2. How does this person or group react?

3. How does Akiko act at the beginning of the novel?

4. How does Akiko get even with John?

5. What happens to the show My American Wife!?

Short Essay Questions

1. What turns around for Jane in this section of the novel?

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

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

4. Why does John get what he deserves?

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

6. Why is Jane arrested?

7. As Akiko wakes up at the hospital, what does she feel?

8. Why does Gale seem so aggressive?

9. How does Akiko become a different woman?

10. Why don't the Japanese producers like this couple?

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

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

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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