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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 book does Karin mention is one of her favorites?
(a) "Jane Eyre," Charlotte Bronte.
(b) "Of Mice and Men," John Steinbeck.
(c) "Look Homeward Angel," Thomas Wolfe.
(d) "Uncle Tom's Cabin," Harriet Beecher Stowe.

2. How old is the child that will be Karin and Mark's daughter when they receive their referral?
(a) Six months.
(b) Three months.
(c) One year.
(d) Eighteen months.

3. What are the "baiji"?
(a) White cranes.
(b) White whales.
(c) White dolphins.
(d) White goats.

4. What major event occurs three days before Mark and Karin leave for China?
(a) Mark is promoted.
(b) Mark and Karin close on a new house.
(c) Mark's brother's wedding.
(d) Karin's father's funeral.

5. What does Karin bury in her yard?
(a) A baby bootie.
(b) A laminated Catholic prayer card.
(c) A soapstone Buddha.
(d) A carved male figure intended to bring luck in birthing a son.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human tie does Evans call one of the deepest possible?

2. What does the author say the book is for a general audience?

3. How old is the author's daughter when they adopt her?

4. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?

5. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the practical side of the Confucian family system that so heavily favors sons?

2. Why do Karin and Mark want to adopt a child?

3. Why are girls expected to feel lucky just to be alive, particularly during the hardest times?

4. What negative predictions accompany a forecast of a 20% shortage of marriageable young women?

5. What is the significance of the phrase, "Heavy pressures that are difficult to explain"?

6. What leads to the famine of 1958-61?

7. What kinds of things are in Karin's "shrine"?

8. What is SOS Kinderdorf International?

9. What is Harry Wu's objection to the Chinese adoption system?

10. Describe the card Karin and Mark receive from the orphanage where Kelly lived.

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