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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 opportunity Jessica saw in Nicole contacting the birth family?
(a) They might purge some difficult traumas.
(b) They might heal her mother.
(c) She might help them put the past behind them.
(d) She might return to her Korean roots.

2. How does Nicole characterize her father’s temperament?
(a) Tense.
(b) Open-minded.
(c) Forthcoming.
(d) Prickly.

3. What did Cindy tell Nicole their parents’ fights were mostly concerned with?
(a) Their mother’s abuse of Cindy.
(b) Their mother’s drinking.
(c) Their father’s gambling.
(d) Their father’s travel.

4. How does Nicole say she views adoption now, instead of as good or bad?
(a) Caring or harmful.
(b) Realistic or oversimplified.
(c) Productive or unproductive.
(d) Intimate or distant.

5. What does Nicole say everyone should understand about adoption?
(a) It is an injury in a social fabric.
(b) It is incomplete if the child cannot reconnect with family.
(c) There is no end to it.
(d) It starts and ends with love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Nicole say she was surprised by, in talking about her adoption with her mother, now that she had found her birth family?

2. How long did it take Cindy to request a date to visit, after Nicole invited her?

3. Who broke the ice when Nicole’s father came to visit?

4. What did Nicole describe in detail to Cindy?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?

4. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?

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

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

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

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

9. What is it that seems wrong and off to Nicole, about her mother’s apologies?

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

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