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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 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.

2. How old is the author's daughter when they adopt her?
(a) One year.
(b) One month.
(c) One week.
(d) One day.

3. What leader celebrated the idea of "glorious mothers having more babies"?
(a) Deng Xiaoping.
(b) Mao Zedong.
(c) Chiang Kai-shek.
(d) Jiang Zemin.

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

5. What is the title of the British documentary about Chinese orphanages?
(a) "Abandoned and Unloved."
(b) "China's Lost Children."
(c) "The Dying Rooms."
(d) "Growing Up Orphans."

Short Answer Questions

1. What character does Mark name as his ideal father?

2. Which of these is NOT an item mentioned as having been found with an abandoned baby?

3. During what dynasty is China's family system based on male lineage first laid out?

4. How old is the child that will be Karin and Mark's daughter when they receive their referral?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are Karin's feelings toward Max?

2. Why does Evans praise the Chinese state for its adoption program?

3. What is a "bicultural identity"?

4. What interesting information does Karin learn about the population-control policy on the riverboat cruise they take?

5. What is Karin's conclusion about her baby's mother?

6. What is the story that Karin has imagined about Kelly's birth mother?

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

8. How do Karin and Mark deliberately expose Kelly to her heritage?

9. Why do the backgrounds of many Chinese adoptees remain so unclear?

10. Why do China's leaders push for a population control policy?

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