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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through In the Light of the Autumn Moon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?
(a) Jiang Zemin.
(b) Mao Zedong.
(c) Confucius.
(d) Mencius.

2. What does the author say the book is for her daughter?
(a) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.
(b) Her own memoirs.
(c) A way to tell her about the culture from which she came.
(d) A story about her birth parents.

3. Which of these is a song Karin and Mark sing to Kelly in the hotel room?
(a) "Itsy-Bitsy Spider."
(b) "Home on the Range."
(c) "Bye Bye Blackbird."
(d) "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

4. What does Karin bury in her yard?
(a) A laminated Catholic prayer card.
(b) A carved male figure intended to bring luck in birthing a son.
(c) A soapstone Buddha.
(d) A baby bootie.

5. For what magazine does Jill Smolowe, adoptive mother and writer, work?
(a) "Better Homes and Gardens."
(b) "Newsweek."
(c) "Atlantic Monthly."
(d) "Time."

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual circumstances involving Chinese adoption exists in one Southern family?

2. What do Chinese officials call women who flee their hometowns to give birth?

3. What is it called when the parents' dossiers are matched with a Chinese child?

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

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

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