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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Being friends with other Chinese children.
(c) Being able to speak Chinese at home.
(d) Pride in the Chinese heritage.

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

3. What event are the Evanses attending where all the children are dressed as tigers?
(a) A Halloween party.
(b) A child's jungle-themed birthday party.
(c) Dragon-Boat Festival.
(d) "Between the Two New Years."

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

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

6. What is the title of the Corky Merwin film that shows a positive side of Chinese orphanages?
(a) "China's Orphanages."
(b) "Good Fortune."
(c) "Sleep Tight."
(d) "China's Lost Daughters."

7. How many generations are in the genealogy May Wong sees?
(a) 23.
(b) 45.
(c) 17.
(d) 36.

8. What is Jeffrey's favorite lullaby called?
(a) "100 Grains of Rice."
(b) "Around the Mulberry Tree."
(c) "The Little Swallow."
(d) "The Crane Song."

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

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

11. In what percentage of families who abandon babies is the decision made by the father?
(a) 50%.
(b) 75%.
(c) 60%.
(d) 40%.

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

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

14. What is the term psychiatrists have given to the feeling of children who have no way to trace their biological history?
(a) Genealogical depression.
(b) Genetic anxiety.
(c) Genetic confusion.
(d) Genealogical bewilderment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Karin's sister-in-law's Mexican-Chinese family call Kelly?

2. Who is Zhang Shuyun?

3. What award does "The Dying Rooms" win?

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

5. What is the name of the former entry port for immigrants coming to California between 1910-1940?

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