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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kelly call motorcycles?
(a) "Rooms."
(b) "Mooms."
(c) "Zooms."
(d) "Mycles."

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

3. What pattern is the quilt on Karin's bed?
(a) Flying Geese.
(b) Wedding Ring.
(c) Log Cabin.
(d) Pinwheel.

4. What major news magazine runs a cover story on genealogy in 1999?
(a) The "New York Times" magazine.
(b) "U.S. News & World Report."
(c) "Time."
(d) "Newsweek."

5. Which of these is a song Karin and Mark sing to Kelly in the hotel room?
(a) "Itsy-Bitsy Spider."
(b) "Bye Bye Blackbird."
(c) "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."
(d) "Home on the Range."

6. What is Kelly's one Cantonese word?
(a) "aii-ya!"
(b) "yu."
(c) "baiji."
(d) "xiao."

7. What is the other name for this Chinese October holiday?
(a) Day of Remembrance.
(b) Day of Reunion.
(c) Day of Forgiveness.
(d) Day of Reckoning.

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

9. 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 friends with other Chinese children.
(d) Being able to speak Chinese at home.

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

11. Where is Karin when she has her first brush with the reality of her child not resembling her physically?
(a) A coffee shop.
(b) The airport.
(c) The post office.
(d) The grocery store.

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

13. What is Kelly's favorite children's recording?
(a) "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep."
(b) "Use Your Napkin(Not Your Mom!)."
(c) "Mary Had a Little Lamb."
(d) "Twinkle,Twinkle, Little Star."

14. What phrase does Chinese professor Huang Banghan use to describe his hopes for adopted Chinese girls' journeys through the questions of their origins?
(a) "Godspeed."
(b) "Safe passage."
(c) "Smooth sailing."
(d) "Soft landing."

15. What award does "The Dying Rooms" win?
(a) A Peabody.
(b) A Nobel.
(c) An Oscar.
(d) An Emmy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is given to all the girls at Ming Quong on Mother's Day?

3. On what surface is Kelly afraid, at first, to move?

4. What does Kelly dress up as for her second Halloween?

5. In what year does "The Dying Rooms" premiere on American television?

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