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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. Why is Jane so outraged about the meat industry?

2. What does John do in retaliation?

3. Finally, what does Akiko realize about a baby?

4. Despite their diverse backgrounds, in what way are Jane and Akiko alike?

5. What does Jane promise Grace?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the two women's lives change?

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

3. Why does John get what he deserves?

4. What will be Jane's most important episode?

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

6. What is the newest show that Jane would like to produce and what will this show Japan?

7. Why is Jane arrested?

8. How does Akiko become a different woman?

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

10. What are some of the cruel practices that happen when cows are slaughtered?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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