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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What went wrong with Cindy’s pregnancy?
(a) The fetus was conjoined twins.
(b) She miscarried.
(c) The fetus was malformed.
(d) The fetus implanted in her fallopian tubes.

3. What did Nicole notice about her father’s carriage?
(a) She said that he carried himself like someone with quiet pride.
(b) She said that he carried himself like someone with a great sorrow.
(c) She said that he carried himself like someone with injuries.
(d) She said that he carried himself like someone with discipline.

4. What was Nicole afraid her sisters might think about her?
(a) That she was lying to them.
(b) That she was manipulating them.
(c) That the adoption was her fault.
(d) That she wanted retribution.

5. What was Nicole’s father’s response, when Cindy asked if she had a sister he had not told her about?
(a) He prevaricated.
(b) He confessed it.
(c) He denied it.
(d) He could not remember.

6. How does Nicole describe the feeling that she and Cindy are finally sisters?
(a) They can go the distance together.
(b) They have each other on speed dial.
(c) Their husbands mistake them for each other.
(d) They read each other’s minds.

7. What does Nicole say she felt while going through labor?
(a) She was in deep despair for the pain.
(b) Someone else must be doing it for her.
(c) She was in a disembodied, blissful state.
(d) She was proud of how she was handling it.

8. What does Nicole say she was surprised by, in talking about her adoption with her mother, now that she had found her birth family?
(a) It was something she could have an opinion about.
(b) It was unstable at every turn, in every fact.
(c) It was still the same story that God willed it for the best.
(d) It had been abandoned in favor of long story-telling.

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

10. How does Nicole say she referred to her father?
(a) By the Korean word for father.
(b) By his first name.
(c) By his last name.
(d) By the Korean word for respected elder.

11. What does Nicole say she could see more and more clearly, the more time she spent with Cindy?
(a) How similar they were.
(b) How important upbringing is.
(c) How little genealogy matters.
(d) How different English and Korean are.

12. What does Nicole say everyone should understand about adoption?
(a) It is an injury in a social fabric.
(b) It starts and ends with love.
(c) There is no end to it.
(d) It is incomplete if the child cannot reconnect with family.

13. What did Cindy say she was nervous about, when she got pregnant?
(a) Making time for child-rearing.
(b) Her child’s health
(c) The pain of birth.
(d) Ending up like her mother.

14. How does Cindy characterize her mother’s life?
(a) Disappointing.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Active.
(d) Infuriating.

15. How old was Nicole when she found out about her second pregnancy?
(a) 27.
(b) 25.
(c) 31.
(d) 29.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Cindy promise Nicole in her first letter?

2. Where was Nicole experiencing pain during labor?

3. What did Cindy say when Nicole said that she did not know if they would ever become sisters?

4. What does Nicole say the tutor did for her, in teaching her Korean?

5. What did Nicole say Cindy promised to teach her?

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