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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Brenda doing when Nicole and Dan arrived at her birth class?
(a) Paperwork.
(b) Stretching.
(c) Breathing exercises.
(d) Lighting candles.

2. Where did Cindy live after her parents divorced?
(a) Sacramento.
(b) Seattle.
(c) Portland.
(d) San Francisco.

3. What did the nurse find with the ultrasound at Nicole’s first checkup?
(a) Its gender.
(b) Its fingertips.
(c) Its heartbeat.
(d) Its face.

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

5. Where had Nicole’s parents moved from, when they had her and gave her up for adoption?
(a) Korea.
(b) Hawaii.
(c) Guam.
(d) Seattle.

6. How long after Nicole had left her parents’ house did she seek out the adoption agency that handled her adoption?
(a) 4 years.
(b) 5 years.
(c) 2 years.
(d) 6 months.

7. What does Nicole say the idea of contacting her birth parents was distracting from?
(a) Her fear of delivery.
(b) The fact that Dan was busy in a demanding graduate program.
(c) Missing her adoptive parents.
(d) Her dread of moving again.

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

9. How many hours’ drive from Portland Oregon was Nicole’s hometown?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 9.
(d) 6.

10. What degree was Dan studying for when Nicole got pregnant?
(a) An M.D.
(b) A J.D.
(c) An MFA.
(d) A Ph.D.

11. What does Nicole say she was looking for in Brenda’s birth class?
(a) Clear instructions.
(b) Philosophical frameworks.
(c) Spiritual grounding.
(d) Pain management techniques.

12. When did Nicole get pregnant with her first child?
(a) 2003.
(b) 2009.
(c) 2005.
(d) 2007.

13. What does Nicole say she was apprehensive about, in contacting her parents?
(a) Having to sort out fact and fiction.
(b) Whether she was Korean enough for them.
(c) Being overwhelmed by their emotional lives.
(d) Learning things that broke her heart.

14. What information did Nicole get along with the non-identifying information from the hospital she was born in?
(a) The name of the doctors who had taken care of her.
(b) A map of the town her parents came from.
(c) A list of relatives in the U.S. and Korea.
(d) A list of intermediaries who could contact her birth parents.

15. Where did Nicole take refuge from her bullying classmates?
(a) Music.
(b) Books.
(c) Daydreaming.
(d) Art.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Nicole when her parents divorced?

2. How much did was the bill for that Nicole found in her parents’ adoption box?

3. What was Nicole put off by when she first met Brenda?

4. What had Nicole’s birth mother done right before her premature labor started?

5. How does Nicole characterize her family’s reaction to her Koreanness?

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