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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How much did Nicole weigh when she was born?
(a) Between five and six pounds.
(b) More than seven pounds.
(c) Between six and seven pounds.
(d) Under five pounds.

2. How does Nicole characterize the typical story of adoption in movies or on TV?
(a) Long-estranged family members reconnect.
(b) A child learns to love herself.
(c) A child is saved from destitution.
(d) An infertile mother is redeemed.

3. What circumstance made Nicole hesitant to look for her birth parents during high school?
(a) Her parents had marital troubles.
(b) Her family moved a lot.
(c) She fell in love with her first boyfriend.
(d) Her mother had a cancer scare.

4. What transition was taking place, that kept Nicole from looking into her birth parents’ identities?
(a) Her mother’s health declined.
(b) She started a new job.
(c) She moved to Chicago for graduate school.
(d) She moved to the east coast with her husband.

5. What does Nicole say her mind was fixated on, after her first prenatal visit?
(a) The list of search angels.
(b) The image of her daughter’s face.
(c) The pain she would feel in delivery.
(d) Her lack of family history.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nicole say she had to show respect for when she had doubts about her adoption narrative?

2. What had Nicole’s birth mother done right before her premature labor started?

3. How did Nicole’s parents explain the opportunity to adopt a child to themselves?

4. What did the social worker tell Nicole’s parents when she gave them the baby?

5. Where did Cindy move to after her freshman year of high school?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nicole feel about opening the question of her birth family?

2. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?

3. How does Nicole explain her parents’ refusal to delve into the complexities presented by her race?

4. What kind of adoption was arranged for Nicole and her birth parents?

5. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?

6. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?

7. What kind of relationship did Nicole think she would have with her birth family, before she started searching?

8. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?

9. What does the title of the memoir refer to?

10. How does Nicole characterize her mother’s fears about her finding her birth parents?

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