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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 is the name of Karin and Mark's new puppy?
(a) Chichi.
(b) Kelly.
(c) Maddy.
(d) Annie.

2. What does it mean when the street vendors call "you liangge yo-o-o"?
(a) "There are two of them!"
(b) "Tourists!"
(c) "Look, Americans!"
(d) "They are blond!"

3. What is an "iron rice bowl"?
(a) A popular set of dishes.
(b) A type of food-stamp program.
(c) Long-term job security.
(d) Rural China.

4. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?
(a) Poison by agricultural pesticide.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Self-starvation.
(d) Stabbing.

5. What is a "shengyu zheng"?
(a) A birth permission paper.
(b) A birth certificate.
(c) A marriage license.
(d) An adoption decree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a regional delicacy in Guangzhou that Karin is told tastes like peanuts?

2. What is the translation of the name given to many girls born into families without sons?

3. Which of these is NOT a traditional Chinese saying disparaging daughters?

4. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?

5. Where does Karin live in her early journalistic career?

(see the answer key)

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