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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In ancient times, what is the other meaning for the Chinese character for "wife"?
(a) "Goddess."
(b) "Equal."
(c) "Lesser."
(d) "Woman."

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

3. Which of these is NOT a source of the author's story?
(a) Her child's birth mother.
(b) Chinese citizens.
(c) Anthropologists.
(d) Demographers.

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

5. As of the writing of the book, approximately how many Chinese-born girls are living in the United States?
(a) 112,000.
(b) 25,000.
(c) 220,000.
(d) 18,000.

6. What is the translation of the name given to many girls born into families without sons?
(a) "Extra mouth."
(b) "Not a boy."
(c) "Treasured one."
(d) "Bring a little brother."

7. 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!"

8. How does the author refer to other girls adopted from China?
(a) "Chinese Pearls."
(b) "The Lost Generation."
(c) "Chinese Flowers."
(d) Her daughter's "sisters."

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

10. How many wars of foreign aggression has China endured in the past 300 years?
(a) 5.
(b) 1.
(c) 6.
(d) 3.

11. At one time in history, what is cut into intricate pieces that fit like puzzles so that separated family could find one another?
(a) Jade.
(b) Silver.
(c) Wood.
(d) Topaz.

12. Which other country is NOT mentioned as a frequent home of Chinese adoptees?
(a) Ireland.
(b) Australia.
(c) Canada.
(d) Spain.

13. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?
(a) Poison by agricultural pesticide.
(b) Self-starvation.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Stabbing.

14. In what year does the government announce its "one-child policy"?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1988.
(d) 1972.

15. What practice does Karin take up to help her de-stress?
(a) Yoga.
(b) Tai chi.
(c) Qigong.
(d) Pilates.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a "hutang"?

2. Who is Mei Li?

3. What major catastrophe occurs in China in the late 1950s?

4. In what year does China change to a "one son or two child policy"?

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

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