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

2. What did Nicole say Cindy promised to teach her?
(a) How to skydive.
(b) How to read Korean.
(c) How to cook Korean food.
(d) How to drive stick.

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

4. What did Rick tell Nicole was a family trait Cindy, Nicole and their father had in common?
(a) A sharp sense of decency.
(b) A weird sense of humor.
(c) A poor sense of time.
(d) A poor sense of direction.

5. What did the fortune cookie say, the night Nicole went into labor?
(a) Never forget where you came from.
(b) Your hard work is about to pay off.
(c) Pay attention to family before money.
(d) Your dreams will come true.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Nicole when she found out about her second pregnancy?

2. What did Nicole say about her mother’s wrongdoings?

3. What did Nicole imagine a relationship with her birth parents would look like?

4. What does Nicole say the tutor did for her, in teaching her Korean?

5. What does Nicole say about the public role she has taken, now that she has found her birth family?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What was labor like for Nicole?

7. What did Nicole call her father?

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

9. What could Cindy tell Nicole about their father?

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

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