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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. How does Jane's mother try to console her?

2. While Jane's personal life is becoming very happy, what is happening to her career?

3. What does Jane try to emphasize to hide what she really wants the episodes to be about?

4. What happens to John at the end of the book?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Jane help Akiko start her life in America?

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

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

6. How does Akiko become a different woman?

7. How does Akiko think she can help Jane?

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

9. How does Gale react when Jane tells him what the hormones have done to his body?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Jane's mixed ethnicity make her the perfect producer for My American Wife!?

Why does it end up being the reason she clashes with her employers?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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