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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?
(a) Distant relatives.
(b) A seamstress.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A friend's family.

4. What is the translation of the name given to many girls born into families without sons?
(a) "Extra mouth."
(b) "Treasured one."
(c) "Bring a little brother."
(d) "Not a boy."

5. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1992.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1990.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the meaning of "Xiao," the first part of all the little girls' names?

2. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?

3. After a baby is born, what do rural Chinese people bury outside the home if it is a girl, and inside if it is a boy?

4. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?

5. What is Jiang Xiao Yu holding when she meets her parents?

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