2. What did Cindy tell Nicole their parents’ fights were mostly concerned with?
(a) Their father’s travel.
(b) Their father’s gambling.
(c) Their mother’s drinking.
(d) Their mother’s abuse of Cindy.

3. What trait did Rick say Cindy and Nicole had in common?
(a) Bookishness.
(b) Great eyesight.
(c) Stubbornness.
(d) A good sense of direction.

4. What kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?
(a) Wary.
(b) Misleading.
(c) Hopeful.
(d) Ominous.

5. How does Nicole say her feelings about her birth mother have changed, now that she made contact and learned the story of her adoption?
(a) The pleasure of being alive is deeper, because she can see the alternative lives she might have lived.
(b) The feelings hurt, but she understands why they hurt.
(c) The feelings are no longer painful, because she understands where they came from.
(d) The pain is worse, because she can see all the places where it might have been a different story.

6. When did Nicole reach full term on her pregnancy?
(a) A week after her father’s first call.
(b) A week after her mother’s first call.
(c) A week after receiving Cindy’s letter.
(d) A week after receiving Jessica’s first letter.

7. What did the clerk at the wine shop make Nicole and Cindy laugh at?
(a) The statement that they look familiar.
(b) The statement that they look like twins.
(c) The statement that they look like mother and daughter.
(d) The statement that they should thank their parents for their genes.

8. How regular was Cindy’s mother’s physical abuse?
(a) Infrequent.
(b) Weekly.
(c) Three-four times a week.
(d) Daily.

9. What was Nicole afraid of in meeting her birth father?
(a) Knowing what to feel about him.
(b) Whether she might look like him enough.
(c) Forgiving him.
(d) Disappointing him.

10. What did Nicole fret about, in terms of a visit with Cindy?
(a) Cindy criticizing her.
(b) Cindy disappointing her.
(c) Cindy hitting her up for money.
(d) Cindy cutting her out of her life.

11. What does Nicole say about the public role she has taken, now that she has found her birth family?
(a) She feels obligated to educate people who show signs of racist thinking.
(b) She feels obligated to take care of her family and let social issues lie.
(c) She feels compelled to stand up against racism.
(d) She feels dual loyalties when her white family acts badly.

12. What did Nicole tell her mother about her adoption?
(a) That she wanted to find a good way to make peace with her.
(b) That she did not blame her.
(c) That she stopped blaming her.
(d) That it scarred her.

13. What wish did Nicole express to her mother?
(a) That her parents has make an open marriage.
(b) That her parents had encouraged her to seek her birth family earlier.
(c) That her parents had made some effort to find her birth family.
(d) That her parents had kept her from searching for her birth family.

14. What did Cindy tell Nicole their father felt, when he was confronted with the story of the adoption?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Sorrow.
(c) Eagerness to set things right.
(d) Shame.

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