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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Nicole first see a city full of Asian people?
(a) New York.
(b) Portland.
(c) Seattle.
(d) San Francisco.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Nicole say she could never be certain of, if she got in touch with her family?
(a) That they would recognize her.
(b) That they manipulate her.
(c) That they would stick around.
(d) That they would tell her the truth.

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

11. When does Nicole say her parents’ story began?
(a) 1998.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1968.

12. Where did Nicole’s parents live before they got a transfer to Seattle?
(a) Chicago.
(b) California.
(c) Alaska.
(d) Nevada.

13. 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) Rarely.
(d) Never.

14. Where did Cindy attend basic training?
(a) South Carolina.
(b) Colorado.
(c) Virginia.
(d) Texas.

15. 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) 20 weeks.
(b) 12 weeks.
(c) 9 weeks.
(d) 6 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Nicole devastated by, when Donna called to say she had contacted her birth family?

2. What was the doctors’ prognosis for Nicole as a baby?

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

4. How does Nicole characterize the relationship she thought she would have with her birth parents?

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

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