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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The One-Child, Maybe-One-More Policy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is the author's daughter born?
(a) Taipei.
(b) Szechuan Province.
(c) Pearl River Delta.
(d) Beijing.

2. What major catastrophe occurs in China in the late 1950s?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A famine.
(c) A drought.
(d) A civil war.

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

4. Which of these groups is NOT one the author and her husband sought support from?
(a) The clergy.
(b) Other adoptive parents.
(c) Their families.
(d) Friends.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What message does Max give the adoptive parents before they head out to start collecting official permissions?

3. What is the first glimpse Karin and Mark get of their baby?

4. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?

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

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