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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the common name of the system that favors boys over girls?
(a) "Chosen boys."
(b) "Daughter disappointment."
(c) "Boy preference."
(d) "Son preference."

2. In ancient times, what is the other meaning for the Chinese character for "wife"?
(a) "Goddess."
(b) "Lesser."
(c) "Woman."
(d) "Equal."

3. What is Jiang Xiao Yu holding when she meets her parents?
(a) A baby doll.
(b) A stuffed bear.
(c) A green cup.
(d) A blue block.

4. What is an "iron rice bowl"?
(a) Rural China.
(b) Long-term job security.
(c) A type of food-stamp program.
(d) A popular set of dishes.

5. Who are "pleaders"?
(a) Men who were desperate for a son.
(b) Women who begged to keep their children.
(c) Men who wanted multiple children to work the land.
(d) Women who wanted more than one child.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?

2. Where is China's leader, Jiang Zemin, at the time Karin and Mark fly to China?

3. What does the author say the book is for a general audience?

4. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?

5. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a place where babies are abandoned?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the practical side of the Confucian family system that so heavily favors sons?

2. What are some of the things that Karin and Mark are told about Kelly?

3. Why are the baiji in danger?

4. What is the main way in which all Chinese adoptees' stories are similar?

5. What is a "bicultural identity"?

6. What are working conditions like in China?

7. Describe the official paperwork Chinese babies who are adopted receive from the Chinese government.

8. What is Qigong?

9. What is the "regrettable past" of Angel Island?

10. How does Karin's view of parenthood differ from Jill Ker Conway's?

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