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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cindy tell Nicole their mother blamed the adoption on?
(a) Her own health.
(b) Her depression.
(c) The family’s poverty.
(d) Her husband.

2. What had just happened when Nicole’s mother called after the baby was born?
(a) Abigail had thrown up on her.
(b) Dan had just left Abigail alone with Nicole.
(c) Abigail had just started screaming.
(d) Nicole had just fallen asleep after days.

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

4. What does Nicole say she has learned about the story that adoption is for the best?
(a) It is not reality.
(b) It is propaganda.
(c) It is mostly true.
(d) It is not meant for adults.

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

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

7. What trait did Nicole observe in her sister that Cindy said was a family trait?
(a) Publishing books.
(b) Note-taking.
(c) Reading.
(d) Cooking with recipes.

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. What does Nicole say makes her grieve the time she lost with her sister?
(a) Seeing the age in her face.
(b) Family holidays, when her other life replaced that life.
(c) Watching her daughter grow up separate from her cousin.
(d) Watching their daughters grow up together.

13. What was Nicole’s reaction when she heard her mother’s voice for the first time?
(a) She was flustered and unprepared to talk.
(b) She sounded nothing like her.
(c) She sounded exactly like her.
(d) She was furious about her calm.

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

15. Why did Nicole tell Abigail that she did not miss her mother?
(a) Because she never knew her.
(b) Because she was a bad person.
(c) Because she had her heart inside herself.
(d) Because she had hurt her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What trait did Rick say Cindy and Nicole had in common?

2. Who was the only person Cindy told about her second pregnancy?

3. How does Nicole characterize her father’s temperament?

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

5. Who broke the ice when Nicole’s father came to visit?

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