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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Matters of Life and Death.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karin bury in her yard?
(a) A laminated Catholic prayer card.
(b) A baby bootie.
(c) A carved male figure intended to bring luck in birthing a son.
(d) A soapstone Buddha.

2. What is "jook"?
(a) Yogurt.
(b) Rice pudding.
(c) Baby food.
(d) Gruel.

3. What is a "hukou"?
(a) A marriage license.
(b) A birth permission paper.
(c) An adoption decree.
(d) A residence registration card.

4. What novel does Evans mention as having a character who strangles a newborn girl?
(a) "Oliver Twist," Charles Dickens.
(b) "The Good Earth," Pearl S. Buck.
(c) "Memoirs of a Geisha," Arthur Golden.
(d) "The Pearl," John Steinbeck.

5. In what year does "The Dying Rooms" premiere on American television?
(a) 1995.
(b) 1994.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1997.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what magazine does Jill Smolowe, adoptive mother and writer, work?

2. What is the title of the Corky Merwin film that shows a positive side of Chinese orphanages?

3. Which of these is NOT part of the new playground built at the orphanage where Kelly lived?

4. What is the name of the ship Karin watches sail under the Golden Gate Bridge?

5. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?

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