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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 did the clerk at the wine shop make Nicole and Cindy laugh at?
(a) The statement that they look like mother and daughter.
(b) The statement that they look familiar.
(c) The statement that they look like twins.
(d) The statement that they should thank their parents for their genes.

2. How does Nicole say her feelings about her birth mother have changed, now that she made contact and learned the story of her adoption?
(a) The feelings are no longer painful, because she understands where they came from.
(b) The feelings hurt, but she understands why they hurt.
(c) The pain is worse, because she can see all the places where it might have been a different story.
(d) The pleasure of being alive is deeper, because she can see the alternative lives she might have lived.

3. What wish did Nicole express to her mother?
(a) That her parents had kept her from searching for her birth family.
(b) That her parents has make an open marriage.
(c) That her parents had encouraged her to seek her birth family earlier.
(d) That her parents had made some effort to find her birth family.

4. What trait of Cindy’s was Nicole struck by when she arrived?
(a) Her blue eyes.
(b) Her curly hair.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her small size.

5. How long did it take Cindy to request a date to visit, after Nicole invited her?
(a) A week.
(b) A day.
(c) A few days.
(d) Hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?

2. What did Nicole fear her father was ashamed of her for?

3. How does Cindy characterize her mother’s life?

4. Why did Nicole tell Abigail that she did not miss her mother?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What was labor like for Nicole?

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