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

2. How dilated was Nicole when she showed up at the birthing center?
(a) 8 centimeters.
(b) 10 centimeters.
(c) 4 centimeters.
(d) 6 centimeters.

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

4. How many generations back could Nicole’s father trace his lineage from his generation?
(a) 17 generations.
(b) 7 generations.
(c) 10 generations.
(d) 19 generations.

5. What went wrong with Cindy’s pregnancy?
(a) She miscarried.
(b) The fetus was conjoined twins.
(c) The fetus implanted in her fallopian tubes.
(d) The fetus was malformed.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was Cindy’s pregnancy terminated?

3. What does Nicole say made her sisters with Cindy?

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

5. What does Nicole say everyone should understand about adoption?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What could Cindy tell Nicole about their father?

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

5. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

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

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

8. How does Nicole characterize the company in which she feels at home?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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