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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 trait did Rick say Cindy and Nicole had in common?
(a) A good sense of direction.
(b) Bookishness.
(c) Great eyesight.
(d) Stubbornness.

2. What did Nicole fret about, in terms of a visit with Cindy?
(a) Cindy cutting her out of her life.
(b) Cindy hitting her up for money.
(c) Cindy criticizing her.
(d) Cindy disappointing her.

3. What was Nicole afraid her sisters might think about her?
(a) That she was lying to them.
(b) That she was manipulating them.
(c) That the adoption was her fault.
(d) That she wanted retribution.

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

5. What did Nicole’s mother’s phone call make Nicole feel about Cindy?
(a) That Cindy was scarred and emotionally deformed by her mother.
(b) That Cindy was braver than her.
(c) That Cindy suffered more than she did.
(d) That Cindy she forgive her mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the fortune cookie say, the night Nicole went into labor?

2. What does Nicole say she has learned about the story that adoption is for the best?

3. What happened when Nicole was 10 centimeters dilated?

4. What did Rick tell Nicole was a family trait Cindy, Nicole and their father had in common?

5. When did Nicole reach full term on her pregnancy?

Short Essay Questions

1. What information does Nicole get from Cindy’s photographs?

2. What was labor like for Nicole?

3. What information did Cindy get from her father when she asked him whether she had a sister?

4. What did Nicole learn about her father’s temperament during the visit?

5. What did Nicole tell her daughter Abigail when Abby started to ask questions about adoption?

6. What was the source of the anxiety Nicole felt in advance of meeting her birth father?

7. How did Cindy get her father to admit that there was another sister?

8. What books did Nicole’s father give to her and to Cindy?

9. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?

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

(see the answer keys)

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