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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. Why does Nicole say that traits that did not make sense to her parents would make sense to her father?
(a) He is a scholar.
(b) He was an refugee.
(c) He was an orphan.
(d) He was a soldier.

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

3. What did Nicole imagine a relationship with her birth parents would look like?
(a) A long-distance friendship.
(b) A pleasant conversation with fellow travelers.
(c) Banter with a passing stranger.
(d) A religious confession.

4. Why does Nicole say she is always relieved when she meets other adoptees?
(a) They might know her family.
(b) They have been to the same places she lived in.
(c) They have all read the same books.
(d) They understand what it means.

5. What did Cindy tell Nicole their mother blamed the adoption on?
(a) Her own health.
(b) The family’s poverty.
(c) Her husband.
(d) Her depression.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nicole say she views adoption now, instead of as good or bad?

2. What trait did Rick say Cindy and Nicole had in common?

3. What was Nicole afraid her sisters might think about her?

4. Why could Nicole not read her father’s book?

5. What trait of Cindy’s was Nicole struck by when she arrived?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

2. What was labor like for Nicole?

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

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

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

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

8. What did Nicole call her father?

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

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

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