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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?
(a) The cook.
(b) The groundskeeper.
(c) The housekeeper.
(d) The doorkeeper.

2. What do Chinese officials call women who flee their hometowns to give birth?
(a) Birth smugglers.
(b) Baby guerrillas.
(c) Birth vigilantes.
(d) Birth guerrillas.

3. Which of these is NOT a source of the author's story?
(a) Demographers.
(b) Chinese citizens.
(c) Her child's birth mother.
(d) Anthropologists.

4. When does the Chinese government's strict population-control policy go into effect?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1993.
(c) 1977.
(d) 2002.

5. Into what city do Karin and Mark fly first?
(a) Beijing.
(b) Guanzhou.
(c) Taipei.
(d) Hong Kong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Mei Li?

2. What is the first major hurdle Karin and Mark have to clear in the adoption process?

3. How does the author refer to other girls adopted from China?

4. What does Karin bury in her yard?

5. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?

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