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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) "Son preference."
(c) "Boy preference."
(d) "Daughter disappointment."

2. What is a "hutang"?
(a) A Chinese dumpling dish.
(b) An old, walled Chinese neighborhood.
(c) A popular stuffed infant toy in China.
(d) A small meal including tea and crackers.

3. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?
(a) A friend's family.
(b) Distant relatives.
(c) A fortune teller.
(d) A seamstress.

4. What unusual circumstances involving Chinese adoption exists in one Southern family?
(a) Three sisters who each adopted a baby.
(b) A mother and daughter who each adopted a baby.
(c) An adoptee from China who adopted a baby from China.
(d) Two single parents of Chinese adoptees married.

5. What major catastrophe occurs in China in the late 1950s?
(a) A drought.
(b) A civil war.
(c) A famine.
(d) An earthquake.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is used by midwives to smother newborn baby girls?

2. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?

3. What is China's overall ratio of boys to girls in 1998?

4. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?

5. What is the period of Mao Zedong's reforms called?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Evans doubt the appropriateness of using the word "abandonment" so often in reference to Chinese babies?

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

4. Describe the two-tier system of adoption Karin mentions.

5. How do Karin and her daughter spend their first afternoon together?

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

7. What is Qigong?

8. What are Karin's feelings toward Max?

9. Describe the relationship between Kelly and the puppy, Maddy.

10. What is the mission of Families with Children from China?

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