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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Chinese legend say brings two lovers together?
(a) An invisible red string.
(b) Chance.
(c) Buddha.
(d) Magnetic force.

2. Where does May Wong attend college?
(a) Stanford University.
(b) University of California at Berkeley.
(c) Harvard University.
(d) University of Notre Dame.

3. What is the title of Human Rights Watch/Asia's 1996 documentary?
(a) "Death by Numbers."
(b) "Death by Default."
(c) "The State of Chinese Orphanages."
(d) "The Dying Rooms."

4. Of what does Karin receive photographs from a young woman in China?
(a) The apartments surrounding the market.
(b) A village near Jiangmen.
(c) The farmer who found her.
(d) The market where Kelly was found.

5. What is the literal translation of "shaying tang"?
(a) "State-run orphanage."
(b) "Hospital for children."
(c) "Hospice for killing infants."
(d) "Home for Little Ones."

6. Where does May Wong grow up?
(a) Northern California.
(b) China.
(c) Chicago.
(d) New York City.

7. What does Kelly dress up as for her second Halloween?
(a) A princess.
(b) A flower.
(c) A witch.
(d) A pumpkin.

8. Which of these is NOT a campaign mentioned from Shanghai and Beijing?
(a) "Adopt an orphan!"
(b) "Link your hearts to orphans' hearts."
(c) "Let kind-hearted people give orphans a big hug."
(d) "Help orphans in every way."

9. At what internationally famous restaurant does the group of adopting parents eat after getting the babies?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) House of Blues.
(c) Kentucky Fried Chicken.
(d) Hard Rock Cafe.

10. Where is it that all adopted Chinese babies must pass through?
(a) Jiangmen.
(b) Shanghai.
(c) Guangzhou.
(d) Beijing.

11. What does Karin's sister-in-law's Mexican-Chinese family call Kelly?
(a) "Miss Kelly."
(b) "The baby."
(c) "La Chinita."
(d) "Chichi."

12. What is the name of the first international adoption agency in the United States?
(a) One World.
(b) Joined Hands.
(c) Adoption International.
(d) Welcome House.

13. To what Broadway show's music does Kelly fall asleep in White Cloud Park?
(a) "Cats."
(b) "Annie."
(c) "West Side Story."
(d) "Oklahoma!"

14. From what country does the wave of adoptees come to America in the 1950s?
(a) Japan.
(b) China.
(c) Korea.
(d) Vietnam.

15. From what country are 2500 children adopted in China after World War II?
(a) China.
(b) Vietnam.
(c) Thailand.
(d) Japan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Zhang Shuyun?

2. Who writes that "A child's chromosomes are an irretrievably scrambled mishmash of its grandparents' chromosomes and so on..."?

3. About how many of China's thousand-plus orphanages do adoption agencies have contact with?

4. For what magazine does Jill Smolowe, adoptive mother and writer, work?

5. What strange menu item from their final dinner in China does Evans mention more than once?

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