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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What famous novelist founds the first international adoption agency in the United States?
(a) Pearl S. Buck.
(b) John Steinbeck.
(c) Ernest Hemingway.
(d) Harper Lee.

2. About how many of China's thousand-plus orphanages do adoption agencies have contact with?
(a) 500.
(b) 750.
(c) 25.
(d) 50.

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

4. What common remark about adopted children from China is particularly frustrating to their parents?
(a) That they don't look like their parents.
(b) That they are lucky to have been rescued.
(c) That they aren't their parents "real" children.
(d) That they all look the same.

5. What famous writer travels to Beijing to speak only to have the speech canceled at the last minute?
(a) Ha Jin.
(b) Danielle Steel.
(c) Amy Tan.
(d) John Grisham.

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

7. What does Evans cite as all children's worst enemy?
(a) Poverty.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Disease.
(d) Neglect.

8. In what type of church is the tiger-costume event held?
(a) Methodist.
(b) Catholic.
(c) Episcopal.
(d) Lutheran.

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

10. What is the name of the organization that sponsors the tiger-costume event and has chapters in all major U.S. cities?
(a) Helping Hands.
(b) Chinese Daughters.
(c) Adopted from China.
(d) Families with Children from China.

11. What does "Ming Quong" mean?
(a) "Happy Home."
(b) "Blessed Children."
(c) "Brilliant Star."
(d) "Radiant Light."

12. Who is Max?
(a) An official at the Consulate.
(b) The adoption group's bus driver.
(c) One of the other adoptive parents.
(d) The adoption group's U.S.-China facilitator.

13. For what magazine does Jill Smolowe, adoptive mother and writer, work?
(a) "Time."
(b) "Better Homes and Gardens."
(c) "Newsweek."
(d) "Atlantic Monthly."

14. What is given to all the girls at Ming Quong on Mother's Day?
(a) A book.
(b) New shoes.
(c) A rose.
(d) A doll.

15. What is Guan Yin the goddess of?
(a) Love.
(b) The sea.
(c) Mercy.
(d) The sky.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the Corky Merwin film that shows a positive side of Chinese orphanages?

2. Where does May Wong grow up?

3. What major news magazine runs a cover story on genealogy in 1999?

4. Where is it that all adopted Chinese babies must pass through?

5. From what country are 2500 children adopted in China after World War II?

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