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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is Karin when she has an epiphany about how unconditionally she loves her daughter?
(a) On a beach.
(b) In the orphanage.
(c) On the plane.
(d) In her kitchen.

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

6. With whom does Amy DeNucci travel to adopt Chinese babies?
(a) Her husband.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sons.
(d) Her sister.

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

8. What is the name of the program May Wong joins in San Francisco?
(a) "In Search of Roots."
(b) "My Hometown."
(c) "Tracing Your Family Tree."
(d) "No Place Like Home."

9. What Akira Kurosawa film that ends with the finding of a baby does Karin watch?
(a) "One Wonderful Sunday."
(b) "Rashomon."
(c) "The Idiot."
(d) "Seven Samurai."

10. What Asian-American athlete does Evans cite as having been called "Beaten by an American"?
(a) Apollo Ono.
(b) Kristi Yamaguchi.
(c) Michelle Wie.
(d) Michelle Kwan.

11. In what country is SOS Kinderdorf International based?
(a) Austria.
(b) The Czech Republic.
(c) Germany.
(d) Switzerland.

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

13. Who writes that "A child's chromosomes are an irretrievably scrambled mishmash of its grandparents' chromosomes and so on..."?
(a) Kahlil Gibran.
(b) Richard Dawkins.
(c) Jill Ker Conway.
(d) Alex Haley.

14. Which of these things is ranked as least important in a national survey of parents of adopted Chinese children?
(a) Exposure to Chinese culture.
(b) Pride in the Chinese heritage.
(c) Being able to speak Chinese at home.
(d) Being friends with other Chinese children.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal's sound does Kelly imitate?

2. What is the name of the web site where children adopted from China can learn about their birthplace?

3. What is the name of the organization that sponsors the tiger-costume event and has chapters in all major U.S. cities?

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

5. Which of these is NOT part of the new playground built at the orphanage where Kelly lived?

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