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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 is the name of the ship Karin watches sail under the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) Paper Moon.
(b) Chinese Buddha.
(c) China Doll.
(d) China Moon.

2. 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?
(a) An offering to the gods.
(b) A lock of hair.
(c) The placenta.
(d) The umbilical cord.

3. What is the meaning of the surname "Jiang," given to the babies at Kelly's orphanage?
(a) Little.
(b) River.
(c) Education.
(d) Light.

4. What are the "baiji"?
(a) White dolphins.
(b) White whales.
(c) White goats.
(d) White cranes.

5. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 17 million.
(c) 70 million.
(d) 100 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to a folk tale Karin read, what are adopted children in China sometimes called?

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

3. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?

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

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

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