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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 Mei Li?
(a) Their new baby.
(b) The head of the orphanage.
(c) An old friend of Karin's.
(d) Their baby's birth mother.

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

3. What is used by midwives to smother newborn baby girls?
(a) Ashes.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A pillow.
(d) The midwife's hand.

4. What is it called when the parents' dossiers are matched with a Chinese child?
(a) A referral.
(b) An intervention.
(c) A contract.
(d) An application.

5. What does the author say the book is for her daughter?
(a) Her own memoirs.
(b) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.
(c) A way to tell her about the culture from which she came.
(d) A story about her birth parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What practice does Karin take up to help her de-stress?

2. What is the name of Karin and Mark's new puppy?

3. Which other country is NOT mentioned as a frequent home of Chinese adoptees?

4. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?

5. Where are Karin and Mark told their daughter was found?

(see the answer key)

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