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

2. 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 denied it.
(c) He confessed it.
(d) He could not remember.

3. Why could Nicole not read her father’s book?
(a) It was in Korean.
(b) It was mostly math equations.
(c) It was written in French.
(d) It was technical scientific material.

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

5. Why did Nicole not name her baby Susan?
(a) Nicole’s mother got upset at the idea.
(b) Dan insisted on Abigail because it was a family name.
(c) Nicole did not want the baby to resemble her.
(d) She didn't want to burden it with her history of adoption.

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

7. Whose books did Nicole’s father present to Nicole and Cindy?
(a) Thoreau.
(b) Emerson.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Melville.

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

9. What does Nicole say spiked in her after her birth?
(a) A heart for justice.
(b) Religiousness.
(c) Maternal instincts.
(d) Forgiveness.

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

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

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

13. What happened when Nicole was 10 centimeters dilated?
(a) The doctors threatened to start a Caesarean.
(b) Nicole received an epidural.
(c) The doula told her to push.
(d) Nicole passed out.

14. How old was Nicole when her parents took her home from the hospital?
(a) 10 weeks.
(b) 2 months.
(c) 14 weeks.
(d) 3 months.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nicole describe in detail to Cindy?

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

3. How was Cindy’s pregnancy terminated?

4. What was Nicole afraid of in meeting her birth father?

5. What did the clerk at the wine shop make Nicole and Cindy laugh at?

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