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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Journey to the East.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Karin put in the notebook decorated with Chinese characters?
(a) Notes for a writing assignment.
(b) Letters to her future child.
(c) Poetry.
(d) A diary.

2. What unusual circumstances involving Chinese adoption exists in one Southern family?
(a) Two single parents of Chinese adoptees married.
(b) Three sisters who each adopted a baby.
(c) An adoptee from China who adopted a baby from China.
(d) A mother and daughter who each adopted a baby.

3. In an old Chinese proverb, what do people try to describe by touching one part of it?
(a) An ostrich.
(b) An airplane.
(c) A tree.
(d) An elephant.

4. According to a folk tale Karin read, what are adopted children in China sometimes called?
(a) Boll worm babies.
(b) Mulberry wasps.
(c) Children of the mulberry bug.
(d) Children of the wasps.

5. Which of these is NOT a source of the author's story?
(a) Demographers.
(b) Chinese citizens.
(c) Her child's birth mother.
(d) Anthropologists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say the book is for a general audience?

2. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?

3. What is on the necklace Karin buys in the farmers' market?

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

5. What practice does Karin take up to help her de-stress?

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