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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, Pages 88-110.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the doctors’ prognosis for Nicole as a baby?
(a) She would recover after a few years and live a normal life.
(b) She would struggle with her health all her life.
(c) She would live a normal life as soon as she gained enough weight.
(d) She would recover after a few months and live a normal life.

2. What did Nicole say when a couple asked her if she ever felt like her parents were not her real parents?
(a) Rarely.
(b) Never.
(c) All the time.
(d) Sometimes.

3. How does Nicole characterize her response to the racial slurs she heard as a kid?
(a) Cool disdain.
(b) Violence.
(c) Furious indignation.
(d) Passive endurance.

4. What did Nicole ask the adoption agency for?
(a) A guide to the emotional aftermath of adoption.
(b) An informational interview.
(c) A name and address for her mother.
(d) Her parents’ information at the time of her adoption.

5. What was the setting where other children made Nicole aware of her race?
(a) School.
(b) Church.
(c) A birthday party.
(d) A doctor’s office.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say her mother was anxious about, in the story of a local boy who reconnected with his birth parents?

2. What was the subject of the class Nicole and Dan took together in college?

3. What does Nicole say Cindy would always hear a voice telling her, when she lived with her father after her parents divorced?

4. Where did Cindy move to after her freshman year of high school?

5. How did Nicole sign her letter to her mother?

(see the answer key)

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