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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean when the street vendors call "you liangge yo-o-o"?
(a) "They are blond!"
(b) "Tourists!"
(c) "Look, Americans!"
(d) "There are two of them!"

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

3. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?
(a) Little Jade.
(b) Little Education.
(c) Little Flower.
(d) Slight Change.

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

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

6. What is the common name of the system that favors boys over girls?
(a) "Daughter disappointment."
(b) "Boy preference."
(c) "Chosen boys."
(d) "Son preference."

7. When does the Chinese government's strict population-control policy go into effect?
(a) 1977.
(b) 2002.
(c) 1993.
(d) 1980.

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

9. What is the title of the British documentary about Chinese orphanages?
(a) "Abandoned and Unloved."
(b) "China's Lost Children."
(c) "Growing Up Orphans."
(d) "The Dying Rooms."

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

11. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?
(a) 1987.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1992.

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

13. In what year does China change to a "one son or two child policy"?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1988.
(c) 1980.
(d) 1997.

14. What human tie does Evans call one of the deepest possible?
(a) Between siblings.
(b) Between grandparents and grandchildren.
(c) Between spouses.
(d) Between parent and child.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of these is NOT a traditional Chinese saying disparaging daughters?

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

3. What is the name of Karin and Mark's new puppy?

4. In what year does the Law on Protection of Rights and Interests of Women go into effect?

5. What is on the necklace Karin buys in the farmers' market?

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