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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nicole say Cindy would always hear a voice telling her, when she lived with her father after her parents divorced?
(a) She had a gift that had to be cultivated.
(b) She should never be too proud to ask for help.
(c) Her family’s business did not concern other people.
(d) If she was not always excellent, she might be given up.

2. Where did Nicole first see a city full of Asian people?
(a) Portland.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) Seattle.
(d) New York.

3. What did the nurse find with the ultrasound at Nicole’s first checkup?
(a) Its face.
(b) Its gender.
(c) Its heartbeat.
(d) Its fingertips.

4. What did the social worker tell Nicole’s parents when she gave them the baby?
(a) We’ll start on a trial basis.
(b) You’ll be fine.
(c) If it doesn’t work out, call us back.
(d) Be very careful.

5. What did Nicole learn from her mother when she asked about the lawyer who handled the adoption?
(a) That she had sisters.
(b) That her mother had spoken to her birth mother.
(c) That her health had not been as dire as she had been told, when she was born.
(d) That her birth mother had tried to contact her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Nicole doing when Donna called to say she had contacted her birth family?

2. Where did Nicole’s mother start out, before she moved west?

3. What was the main feeling Nicole got from the idea of her approaching child?

4. How does Nicole say her parents returned to religion?

5. What did the judge tell Nicole’s parents when he made the adoption official?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?

2. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?

3. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?

4. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?

5. What does the title of the memoir refer to?

6. How did Nicole feel about opening the question of her birth family?

7. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?

8. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?

9. How does Nicole characterize her mother’s fears about her finding her birth parents?

10. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?

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