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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize the color of her baby’s eyes?
(a) Profound brown.
(b) Pale, almost white blue.
(c) Glowing green.
(d) Arresting blue.

2. What did Nicole notice about her father’s carriage?
(a) She said that he carried himself like someone with discipline.
(b) She said that he carried himself like someone with a great sorrow.
(c) She said that he carried himself like someone with quiet pride.
(d) She said that he carried himself like someone with injuries.

3. Why does Nicole say she is always relieved when she meets other adoptees?
(a) They understand what it means.
(b) They have all read the same books.
(c) They have been to the same places she lived in.
(d) They might know her family.

4. How dilated was Nicole when she showed up at the birthing center?
(a) 8 centimeters.
(b) 4 centimeters.
(c) 10 centimeters.
(d) 6 centimeters.

5. How does Nicole characterize her father’s temperament?
(a) Forthcoming.
(b) Prickly.
(c) Tense.
(d) Open-minded.

6. What does Nicole say spiked in her after her birth?
(a) A heart for justice.
(b) Forgiveness.
(c) Religiousness.
(d) Maternal instincts.

7. How does Nicole say her feelings about her birth mother have changed, now that she made contact and learned the story of her adoption?
(a) The pain is worse, because she can see all the places where it might have been a different story.
(b) The feelings hurt, but she understands why they hurt.
(c) The pleasure of being alive is deeper, because she can see the alternative lives she might have lived.
(d) The feelings are no longer painful, because she understands where they came from.

8. When did Nicole reach full term on her pregnancy?
(a) A week after her mother’s first call.
(b) A week after receiving Cindy’s letter.
(c) A week after receiving Jessica’s first letter.
(d) A week after her father’s first call.

9. What did Cindy tell Nicole their parents’ fights were mostly concerned with?
(a) Their father’s gambling.
(b) Their mother’s drinking.
(c) Their mother’s abuse of Cindy.
(d) Their father’s travel.

10. How regular was Cindy’s mother’s physical abuse?
(a) Daily.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Three-four times a week.
(d) Infrequent.

11. What did the fortune cookie say, the night Nicole went into labor?
(a) Your hard work is about to pay off.
(b) Never forget where you came from.
(c) Your dreams will come true.
(d) Pay attention to family before money.

12. How does Nicole say she views adoption now, instead of as good or bad?
(a) Realistic or oversimplified.
(b) Intimate or distant.
(c) Productive or unproductive.
(d) Caring or harmful.

13. What was Nicole afraid her sisters might think about her?
(a) That the adoption was her fault.
(b) That she wanted retribution.
(c) That she was lying to them.
(d) That she was manipulating them.

14. What was Nicole’s reaction when she heard her mother’s voice for the first time?
(a) She sounded nothing like her.
(b) She was furious about her calm.
(c) She sounded exactly like her.
(d) She was flustered and unprepared to talk.

15. How did Nicole’s mother explain the adoption to Nicole on the phone?
(a) She said that she had wanted a boy child.
(b) She said that she had mental illness.
(c) She said that it was her husband’s idea.
(d) She said that the baby was taken from her.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what mannerism does Nicole say she and Cindy resembled each other?

2. How did Cindy characterize her father’s temperament to Nicole in advance of his visit?

3. What did Nicole fret about, in terms of a visit with Cindy?

4. What does Nicole say she was surprised by, in talking about her adoption with her mother, now that she had found her birth family?

5. What did Rick tell Nicole was a family trait Cindy, Nicole and their father had in common?

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