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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Matters of Life and Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Zhang Shuyun?
(a) A Chinese filmmaker.
(b) A Chinese government official.
(c) A Chinese orphanage caretaker.
(d) A Chinese physician.

2. What is the meaning of the surname "Jiang," given to the babies at Kelly's orphanage?
(a) River.
(b) Education.
(c) Little.
(d) Light.

3. In what year does the government announce its "one-child policy"?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1992.
(d) 1972.

4. What American icon does Karin see painted on trashcans in Guanzhou?
(a) Barney.
(b) The Golden Arches.
(c) Wendy.
(d) The Kentucky Fried Colonel.

5. What is a regional delicacy in Guangzhou that Karin is told tastes like peanuts?
(a) Fried mulberry leaves.
(b) Fried grasshoppers.
(c) Fried silkworms.
(d) Fried moths.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is China's leader, Jiang Zemin, at the time Karin and Mark fly to China?

2. What is the common name of the system that favors boys over girls?

3. What leader celebrated the idea of "glorious mothers having more babies"?

4. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?

5. In what year does China change to a "one son or two child policy"?

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