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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. About what does Akiko warn Jane?

3. What does Sloan think about what has happened?

4. What does Akiko arrange to do?

5. How does Akiko feel as she flies toward America?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Jane feel so upset about her life?

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

3. How do things turn around for Jane?

4. How does Akiko think she can help Jane?

5. What has Jane decided to do about the baby?

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

According to the author, how are Japanese wives expected to act?

Why does Akiko increasingly feel the need to always please everyone around her?

Is it because of the way Japanese women are raised?

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

How does Ruth Ozeki portray Japanese men? Japanese business men?

Is she using a stereotypical model that she knows?

Is she too quick to judge this group of men?

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