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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "shengyu zheng"?
(a) A birth certificate.
(b) A birth permission paper.
(c) A marriage license.
(d) An adoption decree.

2. What are the "baiji"?
(a) White cranes.
(b) White goats.
(c) White whales.
(d) White dolphins.

3. What novel does Evans mention as having a character who strangles a newborn girl?
(a) "Memoirs of a Geisha," Arthur Golden.
(b) "The Pearl," John Steinbeck.
(c) "Oliver Twist," Charles Dickens.
(d) "The Good Earth," Pearl S. Buck.

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

5. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?
(a) 17 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 7 million.

6. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a place where babies are abandoned?
(a) Along roads.
(b) Railroad stations.
(c) Hospitals.
(d) Schools.

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

8. During what dynasty is China's family system based on male lineage first laid out?
(a) Ming.
(b) Qin.
(c) Song.
(d) Han.

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

10. Which of these is NOT an item mentioned as having been found with an abandoned baby?
(a) A yam.
(b) A stuffed panda bear.
(c) String bracelets.
(d) A bag of rice.

11. What is a natural ratio of boys to girls at birth?
(a) 105:100.
(b) 120:100.
(c) 85:100.
(d) 100:100.

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

13. 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) Six cows came from Beijing bearing mulberry tree seeds.
(d) Eight cranes flew in with grains of rice.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the author refer to other girls adopted from China?

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

3. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?

4. Of what TV show does Mark say the "soy or milk" formula debate reminds him?

5. What is an "iron rice bowl"?

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