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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. What was the subject of the class Nicole and Dan took together in college?
(a) Physics.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Mathematics.

2. 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 the east coast with her husband.
(d) She moved to Chicago for graduate school.

3. How does Nicole characterize her family’s reaction to her Koreanness?
(a) They celebrated it.
(b) They punished her for it.
(c) They ignored it.
(d) They pretended it did not exist.

4. What was Nicole’s initial feeling about child birth?
(a) Wariness.
(b) Excitement.
(c) Panic.
(d) Awe.

5. What does Nicole say the idea of contacting her birth parents was distracting from?
(a) The fact that Dan was busy in a demanding graduate program.
(b) Her dread of moving again.
(c) Missing her adoptive parents.
(d) Her fear of delivery.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Cindy learn to work hard, in Nicole’s account?

2. How old was Nicole when her parents divorced?

3. What does Nicole say her mother was anxious about, in the story of a local boy who reconnected with his birth parents?

4. How old was Cindy when she came to America?

5. How long after Nicole had left her parents’ house did she seek out the adoption agency that handled her adoption?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?

4. What did Nicole find in Seattle the first time she went there?

5. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?

6. What strategies did Nicole develop as a young child, to combat other students’ race-based hostility toward her?

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

8. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?

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

10. What happened when Nicole’s birth mother tried to get in touch with her?

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