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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 kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?
(a) Hopeful.
(b) Ominous.
(c) Wary.
(d) Misleading.

2. How does Nicole characterize the color of her baby’s eyes?
(a) Profound brown.
(b) Arresting blue.
(c) Glowing green.
(d) Pale, almost white blue.

3. What happened when Nicole was 10 centimeters dilated?
(a) The doula told her to push.
(b) The doctors threatened to start a Caesarean.
(c) Nicole received an epidural.
(d) Nicole passed out.

4. What promise did Nicole make to her children about her history?
(a) To hold it back till they are ready for it.
(b) To clean it up.
(c) To give them all the hard things up front.
(d) To be open about it.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say she felt about her inability to follow the conversation when her father switched to Korean?

2. What was the opportunity Jessica saw in Nicole contacting the birth family?

3. What does Nicole say makes her grieve the time she lost with her sister?

4. What did Nicole fret about, in terms of a visit with Cindy?

5. Why does Nicole say that traits that did not make sense to her parents would make sense to her father?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?

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

8. How does giving birth change Nicole’s view of her own birth?

9. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

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

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