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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 the tutor did for her, in teaching her Korean?
(a) Took her home.
(b) Dissolved her shame.
(c) Demystified her family.
(d) Cracked her heart open to new feelings.

2. What was the opportunity Jessica saw in Nicole contacting the birth family?
(a) They might purge some difficult traumas.
(b) She might return to her Korean roots.
(c) She might help them put the past behind them.
(d) They might heal her mother.

3. How long did it take Cindy to request a date to visit, after Nicole invited her?
(a) A day.
(b) A week.
(c) A few days.
(d) Hours.

4. Which family member remained to be contacted after Nicole wrote her first letter?
(a) Jessica.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Cindy.
(d) Her father.

5. How does Nicole characterize the color of her baby’s eyes?
(a) Profound brown.
(b) Arresting blue.
(c) Pale, almost white blue.
(d) Glowing green.

6. What did Nicole say Cindy promised to teach her?
(a) How to read Korean.
(b) How to drive stick.
(c) How to cook Korean food.
(d) How to skydive.

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

8. What did Nicole’s father’s first letter ask her for?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Assurances that she is honest.
(c) Career information.
(d) Money.

9. What did Cindy thank Nicole for on the second morning of their visit?
(a) Making their mother apologize.
(b) Not remaining a secret.
(c) Contacting their mother.
(d) Contacting their father.

10. Where was Nicole experiencing pain during labor?
(a) Headache.
(b) Back.
(c) Lungs.
(d) Shoulders.

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

12. What did Cindy say when Nicole said that she did not know if they would ever become sisters?
(a) That they could get help from a therapist.
(b) That they would never really be sisters.
(c) That they would have to work for it.
(d) That they already were.

13. What did Nicole describe in detail to Cindy?
(a) Abigail rolling over.
(b) Abigail eating.
(c) Changing Abigail’s diaper.
(d) How exhausted she was.

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

15. What side of Nicole’s mother did Jessica reveal to her?
(a) She could be funny and charming.
(b) She was a brilliant intellectual.
(c) She was a devout Christian.
(d) She was a caring nurse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What promise did Nicole make to her children about her history?

2. What did Cindy tell Nicole their father felt, when he was confronted with the story of the adoption?

3. What does Nicole say she was surprised by, in talking about her adoption with her mother, now that she had found her birth family?

4. How long after Cindy’s pregnancy ended did she travel to see Nicole?

5. What did Cindy tell Nicole their mother blamed the adoption on?

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