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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 a general audience?
(a) True stories about birth parents.
(b) Her own memoirs.
(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.

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is the period of Mao Zedong's reforms called?
(a) The New Deal.
(b) The Golden Age.
(c) The Great Leap Forward.
(d) The Mao Dynasty.

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

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

10. How many people are estimated to have died during the disaster that occurred in the late 1950s?
(a) 300 million.
(b) 30 million.
(c) 3 million.
(d) 13 million.

11. In ancient times, what is the other meaning for the Chinese character for "wife"?
(a) "Equal."
(b) "Lesser."
(c) "Woman."
(d) "Goddess."

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

13. In what year does the government announce its "one-child policy"?
(a) 1988.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1992.

14. Where does Karin live in her early journalistic career?
(a) London.
(b) Hong Kong.
(c) Rio de Janeiro.
(d) India.

15. How old is the child that will be Karin and Mark's daughter when they receive their referral?
(a) One year.
(b) Eighteen months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Six months.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first major hurdle Karin and Mark have to clear in the adoption process?

2. Who is Mei Li?

3. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?

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

5. What is the title of the British documentary about Chinese orphanages?

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