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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What unusual circumstances involving Chinese adoption exists in one Southern family?

2. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a place where babies are abandoned?

3. About how long does it take for adoptive parents to move from the first meeting in an adoption agency to meeting their child?

4. What is a natural ratio of boys to girls at birth?

5. What do Chinese officials call women who flee their hometowns to give birth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why are the baiji in danger?

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

5. What are Karin's feelings toward Max?

6. Describe the card Karin and Mark receive from the orphanage where Kelly lived.

7. What is the main way in which all Chinese adoptees' stories are similar?

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

9. What is a "bicultural identity"?

10. What are some of the circumstances that have created such a large amount of Chinese baby girls in orphanages?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Please discuss at least two issues that are brewing in China at least in part due to the one-child policy and all of the lost daughters.

Essay Topic 2

What is the story of the red thread and its significance to Chinese adoptees? How does Evans use this story in her own?

Essay Topic 3

What are the circumstances that have led to the wide disparity between the number of girls and boys in Chinese orphanages? Be sure to include both ancient influences and current conditions.

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