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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Nicole say is often missing in transracial adoptions?
(a) Therapy for the child.
(b) Guidance.
(c) Financial support.
(d) Assimilation support.

2. Where did Nicole’s mother start out, before she moved west?
(a) Pennsylvania.
(b) Cleveland.
(c) New York.
(d) Chicago.

3. What kind of information would the hospital workers give Nicole about childbirth?
(a) A spiritual guide to pregnancy.
(b) Exercises for pelvic health.
(c) Check-in procedures.
(d) Nutritional information for pregnancy.

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

5. How old was Nicole when the couple asked her about adoption?
(a) Freshman year of college.
(b) Mid-twenties.
(c) A few months out of college.
(d) Junior year of high school.

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

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

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

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

10. What was the main feeling Nicole got from the idea of her approaching child?
(a) Insufficiency.
(b) Bliss.
(c) Depression.
(d) Resentment.

11. How old was Nicole when her parents divorced?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

12. How long was Cindy deployed in Korea for?
(a) Three years.
(b) Six months.
(c) A year and a half.
(d) Eighteen years.

13. 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.

14. How far along was Nicole in her pregnancy when she decided that it was time to involve an intermediary in searching for her parents?
(a) 12 weeks.
(b) 6 weeks.
(c) 9 weeks.
(d) 20 weeks.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Nicole characterize the first big kick she got from her baby?

3. What did Nicole say she wanted to hear from a birth instructor?

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

5. How does Nicole say Cindy felt when she was deployed in Korea?

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