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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the estimated cost of adopting a child from China?
(a) $25,000.
(b) $10,000.
(c) $5,000.
(d) $15,000.

5. Who is China's second sage?
(a) Mao Zedong.
(b) Kublai Khan.
(c) Mencius.
(d) Confucius.

6. What is the first major hurdle Karin and Mark have to clear in the adoption process?
(a) FBI fingerprinting.
(b) Clearance from the INS.
(c) Passing a home study by a social worker.
(d) A credit check.

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

8. Where is China's leader, Jiang Zemin, at the time Karin and Mark fly to China?
(a) Hong Kong.
(b) England.
(c) Guanzhou.
(d) In the United States.

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

10. What leader celebrated the idea of "glorious mothers having more babies"?
(a) Mao Zedong.
(b) Jiang Zemin.
(c) Deng Xiaoping.
(d) Chiang Kai-shek.

11. What is the main reason Chinese people cite for the necessity of the population-control policies?
(a) Fear of another famine.
(b) Scarcity of natural resources.
(c) Economic development.
(d) Family stability.

12. What is the local legend about the founding of Guanzhou?
(a) Six goats came from the sky with grains of rice.
(b) Eight muberry trees sprouted spontaneously.
(c) Eight cranes flew in with grains of rice.
(d) Six cows came from Beijing bearing mulberry tree seeds.

13. What is the first glimpse Karin and Mark get of their baby?
(a) Her footprint.
(b) They see her through a window.
(c) She is handed to them.
(d) A photograph.

14. What is a "hukou"?
(a) A marriage license.
(b) A birth permission paper.
(c) An adoption decree.
(d) A residence registration card.

15. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?
(a) A changing table.
(b) A rocking chair.
(c) An electric fan.
(d) A makeshift crib.

Short Answer Questions

1. About how long does it take for adoptive parents to move from the first meeting in an adoption agency to meeting their child?

2. What character does Mark name as his ideal father?

3. What American icon does Karin see painted on trashcans in Guanzhou?

4. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?

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

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