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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 most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Self-starvation.
(c) Poison by agricultural pesticide.
(d) Stabbing.

2. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?
(a) 7 million.
(b) 70 million.
(c) 100 million.
(d) 17 million.

3. What does Karin think is in the bundle a young woman tries to give her?
(a) A baby.
(b) A puppy.
(c) Money.
(d) A kitten.

4. What is the first glimpse Karin and Mark get of their baby?
(a) Her footprint.
(b) They see her through a window.
(c) She is handed to them.
(d) A photograph.

5. How many wars of foreign aggression has China endured in the past 300 years?
(a) 6.
(b) 3.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the author's daughter born?

2. What is an "iron rice bowl"?

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

4. When does the Chinese government's strict population-control policy go into effect?

5. What does the author say the book is for her daughter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What interesting information does Karin learn about the population-control policy on the riverboat cruise they take?

2. Describe the traffic in Guanzhou at night.

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

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

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

6. What are Karin's feelings toward Max?

7. What is Qigong?

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

9. Why does professor Huang Banghan want to write a book about Chinese-U.S. adoption for Chinese readers?

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

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