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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Jiang Xiao Yu holding when she meets her parents?
(a) A baby doll.
(b) A blue block.
(c) A stuffed bear.
(d) A green cup.

2. What is the "dark side" to which Chinese journalists refer?
(a) Infanticide.
(b) Abandoned babies.
(c) Forced abortions.
(d) Human trafficking in young women.

3. 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 umbilical cord.
(c) An offering to the gods.
(d) The placenta.

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

5. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?
(a) Gucci.
(b) Trump's Castle Casino Resort.
(c) Disney World.
(d) McDonald's.

6. What does Karin put in the notebook decorated with Chinese characters?
(a) A diary.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Letters to her future child.
(d) Notes for a writing assignment.

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

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

9. What character does Mark name as his ideal father?
(a) Mr. Bennett, "Pride and Prejudice."
(b) Atticus Finch, "To Kill a Mockingbird."
(c) Daddy Warbucks, "Annie."
(d) Dr. Huxtable, "The Cosby Show."

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

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

12. 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) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.
(c) Her own memoirs.
(d) A story about her birth parents.

13. Where are Karin and Mark told their daughter was found?
(a) Beside the highway.
(b) Under a bridge.
(c) In a dumpster.
(d) In a market.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Where is China's leader, Jiang Zemin, at the time Karin and Mark fly to China?

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