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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV, Pages 200-222.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nicole say she had to show respect for when she had doubts about her adoption narrative?
(a) Her parents’ sacrifice.
(b) The church’s beneficence in finding her new parents.
(c) The doctors’ skills in saving her.
(d) The synchronicity that brought her to her parents.

2. What does Nicole say was inextricably linked with adoption for her?
(a) Language.
(b) Race.
(c) Gender.
(d) Class.

3. What did giving birth make Nicole wonder about, regarding her own birth?
(a) Whether she cried right away.
(b) Whether her mother got to hold her.
(c) Whether her mother’s labor was hard.
(d) Whether her father helped her mother with the birth.

4. What was Nicole’s father’s response, when Cindy asked if she had a sister he had not told her about?
(a) He confessed it.
(b) He prevaricated.
(c) He could not remember.
(d) He denied it.

5. How did Cindy characterize her father’s temperament to Nicole in advance of his visit?
(a) Fawning.
(b) Genial.
(c) Blunt.
(d) Reactionary.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say she could never be certain of, if she got in touch with her family?

2. What kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?

3. Why does Nicole say that traits that did not make sense to her parents would make sense to her father?

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

5. What trait of Cindy’s was Nicole struck by when she arrived?

(see the answer key)

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