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

2. When does the Chinese government's strict population-control policy go into effect?
(a) 1977.
(b) 1980.
(c) 2002.
(d) 1993.

3. What do Chinese officials call women who flee their hometowns to give birth?
(a) Birth guerrillas.
(b) Birth vigilantes.
(c) Baby guerrillas.
(d) Birth smugglers.

4. What is on the necklace Karin buys in the farmers' market?
(a) A jade Buddha.
(b) A jade star.
(c) A silver heart.
(d) A silver Buddha.

5. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?
(a) The cook.
(b) The groundskeeper.
(c) The doorkeeper.
(d) The housekeeper.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major event occurs three days before Mark and Karin leave for China?

2. How many wars of foreign aggression has China endured in the past 300 years?

3. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a place where babies are abandoned?

4. What novel does Evans mention as having a character who strangles a newborn girl?

5. How many women are forcibly sterilized during campaigns in 1983 and 1991?

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