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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that Chinese people traditionally eat at this October festival?
(a) Wontons.
(b) Rice pudding.
(c) Noodles.
(d) Mooncakes.

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

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

4. What is the name of the national organization for single parents of Chinese children?
(a) Just the Two of Us.
(b) Helping Hands.
(c) Families with Children from China.
(d) Our Chinese Daughters Foundation.

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

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

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

8. Jenny Bowen remembers a little girl left behind who is very proud of what possession?
(a) String bracelets.
(b) A locket.
(c) A book.
(d) A doll.

9. What is the name of the former entry port for immigrants coming to California between 1910-1940?
(a) Angel Island.
(b) Ellis Island.
(c) Ryker's Island.
(d) Alcatraz.

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

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

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

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

14. What fact does Evans mention about adopting children over the age of ten?
(a) They are always placed in pairs.
(b) They must agree to the adoption.
(c) They are only adopted within China.
(d) They cannot be adopted at all.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what country is SOS Kinderdorf International based?

2. Who is Max?

3. Where does May Wong grow up?

4. What symbols does Karin's father use to represent people on his family tree?

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

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