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

2. How does the author refer to other girls adopted from China?
(a) "Chinese Pearls."
(b) Her daughter's "sisters."
(c) "Chinese Flowers."
(d) "The Lost Generation."

3. Which of these groups is NOT one the author and her husband sought support from?
(a) Friends.
(b) Their families.
(c) The clergy.
(d) Other adoptive parents.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. Of what TV show does Mark say the "soy or milk" formula debate reminds him?

5. What leader celebrated the idea of "glorious mothers having more babies"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Karin and Mark deliberately expose Kelly to her heritage?

2. Why are girls expected to feel lucky just to be alive, particularly during the hardest times?

3. How is adoption different in the 1950s-70s?

4. What are some reasons that Americans have turned more to international adoptions?

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

6. What is the story that Karin has imagined about Kelly's birth mother?

7. What do the families have to do on Shamian Island?

8. Describe the experience Mark and Karin had at the local dog pound.

9. What unintended consequence could China's single-child policy have as the first generation of only children grows up?

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

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