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

2. How did Nicole’s mother explain the adoption to Nicole on the phone?
(a) She said that she had mental illness.
(b) She said that the baby was taken from her.
(c) She said that she had wanted a boy child.
(d) She said that it was her husband’s idea.

3. What does Nicole say she could see more and more clearly, the more time she spent with Cindy?
(a) How important upbringing is.
(b) How similar they were.
(c) How different English and Korean are.
(d) How little genealogy matters.

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

5. What assurance did Nicole’s mother give her, after Nicole found out that her birth mother was abusive?
(a) That she could never hurt a child.
(b) That God would protect her and her child.
(c) That violence is not genetic.
(d) That she was raised in a different time and place.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Nicole say she referred to her father?

3. What side of Nicole’s mother did Jessica reveal to her?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?

2. What do Nicole and Cindy find they have in common when they meet?

3. What does Nicole’s sister Jessica say she and her sister Cindy had been told about the baby who was given away?

4. How does the relationship between Grace and Abigail reflect Nicole’s relationship with Cindy back to her?

5. How does Nicole characterize her role as an adoptee in contemporary America?

6. What does Nicole’s father tell her about his family’s lineage?

7. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?

8. How does Nicole get Cindy to discuss the hard things she had originally wanted to avoid talking about?

9. What was Nicole’s mother’s reaction to Nicole’s new information about her birth family?

10. How did Cindy’s pregnancy affect her visit with Nicole and Dan?

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