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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the ship Karin watches sail under the Golden Gate Bridge?
(a) Chinese Buddha.
(b) Paper Moon.
(c) China Doll.
(d) China Moon.

2. Where is the author's daughter born?
(a) Pearl River Delta.
(b) Szechuan Province.
(c) Beijing.
(d) Taipei.

3. What is an "iron rice bowl"?
(a) Rural China.
(b) A type of food-stamp program.
(c) A popular set of dishes.
(d) Long-term job security.

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

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

6. How many Chinese girls are flown into the United States every month?
(a) 125.
(b) 350.
(c) 500.
(d) 75.

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

8. What is the meaning of "Xiao," the first part of all the little girls' names?
(a) River.
(b) Little.
(c) Education.
(d) Jade.

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

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

11. Which of these places is NOT mentioned as a new home of a Chinese baby?
(a) Boston.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Los Angeles.

12. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?
(a) A fortune teller.
(b) Distant relatives.
(c) A friend's family.
(d) A seamstress.

13. What does the author say the book is for a general audience?
(a) Her own memoirs.
(b) True stories about birth parents.
(c) A way to tell about the culture from which these Chinese girls came.
(d) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.

14. Who are "pleaders"?
(a) Women who wanted more than one child.
(b) Men who were desperate for a son.
(c) Women who begged to keep their children.
(d) Men who wanted multiple children to work the land.

15. What is the popular name of legendary heroine Fa Mu Lan?
(a) Famu.
(b) Mumu.
(c) Lanxi.
(d) Mulan.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What book does Karin mention is one of her favorites?

3. What is the common name of the system that favors boys over girls?

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

5. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?

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