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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which term describes Nicole’s adoption?
(a) Unofficial.
(b) Meticulous.
(c) Bureaucratically complex.
(d) Expedited.

3. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with being Korean?
(a) She did not notice it.
(b) She loved it but only in secret.
(c) She hated it openly.
(d) She loved and hated it.

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

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

6. How many Koreans does Nicole say lived in the town she grew up in, other than her?
(a) None.
(b) One family.
(c) A small community.
(d) A few.

7. What had Nicole’s birth mother done right before her premature labor started?
(a) Cooked a big meal.
(b) Gone for a long walk.
(c) Yelled at Cindy.
(d) Beaten Cindy.

8. What was the subject of the class Nicole and Dan took together in college?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Physics.
(c) Psychology.
(d) Mathematics.

9. What nation was Nicole’s adoptive last name from?
(a) Hungary.
(b) Croatia.
(c) Russia.
(d) Germany.

10. How did Nicole’s father answer when she asked him if he ever thought about how she ended up with them?
(a) It was a puzzle he thought about all the time.
(b) He never thought about it.
(c) God wanted them to have her.
(d) It was just Fate.

11. How does Nicole characterize the relationship she thought she would have with her birth parents?
(a) Nothing better than estrangement.
(b) Passing friendship.
(c) Long, deep instant friendship.
(d) A long-distance friendship.

12. How does Nicole characterize the first big kick she got from her baby?
(a) A protest.
(b) A longing for connection.
(c) A blind struggle.
(d) A joyful greeting.

13. 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) Her dread of moving again.
(d) Missing her adoptive parents.

14. How does Nicole say Cindy felt when she was deployed in Korea?
(a) Like a child.
(b) Like a sick person.
(c) Like an outsider.
(d) Like a fugitive.

15. What was Nicole’s husband Dan’s genetic heritage?
(a) Lebanese.
(b) Russian.
(c) Spanish.
(d) German.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Nicole’s parents try for a pregnancy before they adopted her?

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

3. How old was Nicole when her parents divorced?

4. Who does Nicole say was the only person who knew she was looking for her birth parents?

5. What kind of patient does Nicole say she always was?

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