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

2. What is the title of the British documentary about Chinese orphanages?
(a) "Growing Up Orphans."
(b) "The Dying Rooms."
(c) "China's Lost Children."
(d) "Abandoned and Unloved."

3. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?
(a) The housekeeper.
(b) The cook.
(c) The doorkeeper.
(d) The groundskeeper.

4. Who is China's second sage?
(a) Mao Zedong.
(b) Mencius.
(c) Kublai Khan.
(d) Confucius.

5. What is a "shengyu zheng"?
(a) An adoption decree.
(b) A marriage license.
(c) A birth certificate.
(d) A birth permission paper.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?

2. Where does Karin live in her early journalistic career?

3. What major catastrophe occurs in China in the late 1950s?

4. What are the "baiji"?

5. What is the first major hurdle Karin and Mark have to clear in the adoption process?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do China's leaders push for a population control policy?

2. What is Kelly's reaction to the film "Stuart Little"?

3. What leads to the famine of 1958-61?

4. How do Karin and Mark feel about the rest of their group?

5. What is, in Evans' mind, the most important finding to come out of a study on infant abandonment in China?

6. What is a "bicultural identity"?

7. What negative predictions accompany a forecast of a 20% shortage of marriageable young women?

8. What is the ancient Chinese proverb that Evans references?

9. What kinds of things are in Karin's "shrine"?

10. Why does Evans praise the Chinese state for its adoption program?

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