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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) Self-starvation.
(b) Hanging.
(c) Stabbing.
(d) Poison by agricultural pesticide.

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

3. What does the author say the book is for her daughter?
(a) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.
(b) Her own memoirs.
(c) A story about her birth parents.
(d) A way to tell her about the culture from which she came.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does Max give the adoptive parents before they head out to start collecting official permissions?

2. How many people are estimated to have died during the disaster that occurred in the late 1950s?

3. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?

4. In what year does China change to a "one son or two child policy"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the traffic in Guanzhou at night.

3. What are some of the recommendations on packing for China that Karin and Mark choose not to use?

4. What does Karin fear about her daughter's future trip to China to search for her roots?

5. What are some of the effects of the "one-child policy" on baby girls?

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

7. Why do the backgrounds of many Chinese adoptees remain so unclear?

8. Why does Evans write this book?

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

10. What is China's "dark side"?

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