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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?
(a) An electric fan.
(b) A changing table.
(c) A makeshift crib.
(d) A rocking chair.

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

3. What does Karin think is in the bundle a young woman tries to give her?
(a) A puppy.
(b) A kitten.
(c) A baby.
(d) Money.

4. Who is Mei Li?
(a) An old friend of Karin's.
(b) Their baby's birth mother.
(c) The head of the orphanage.
(d) Their new baby.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is China's second sage?

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

3. What human tie does Evans call one of the deepest possible?

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

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

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