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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who brought Cindy and her father together, to talk about Nicole’s adoption?
(a) Her birth mother.
(b) Nicole.
(c) Her father’s wife.
(d) Jessica.

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

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

4. What did it mean for Nicole to find her birth family?
(a) She no longer felt displaced from herself.
(b) She could finally sleep through the nights.
(c) Her adoption started to seem like a healed scar, not an injury.
(d) Her adoption was a narrative other people carried as well.

5. What does Nicole say she felt about herself in comparison to Cindy?
(a) Brash.
(b) Unstable.
(c) Disorganized.
(d) Subdued.

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

7. What did Nicole’s birth mother send her after she gave birth?
(a) Chocolates.
(b) A necklace.
(c) Flowers.
(d) A teddy bear.

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

9. What does Nicole say made her sisters with Cindy?
(a) They visited with their father together.
(b) They decided to be sisters.
(c) They spent a certain amount of time on the phone together.
(d) They found enough traits in common.

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

11. Who was the only person Cindy told about her second pregnancy?
(a) Her father.
(b) Dan.
(c) Her mother.
(d) Nicole.

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

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

14. 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 dual loyalties when her white family acts badly.
(c) She feels obligated to take care of her family and let social issues lie.
(d) She feels compelled to stand up against racism.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say she could see more and more clearly, the more time she spent with Cindy?

2. Whose books did Nicole’s father present to Nicole and Cindy?

3. How regular was Cindy’s mother’s physical abuse?

4. What went wrong with Cindy’s pregnancy?

5. Why does Nicole’s mother say she did not respond to Nicole’s birth mother when she reached out when Nicole was a child?

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