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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. How many wars of foreign aggression has China endured in the past 300 years?

2. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does May Wong see as the biggest difference between Chinese and American cultures?

4. What is Harry Wu's objection to the Chinese adoption system?

5. Describe three ways in which Evans pictures Chinese adoptees growing up in the United States.

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

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

8. What attempts are made during the Mao Zedong era to improve the lives of women?

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

10. What does Karin mention about the Cantonese people?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why is the group Families with Children from China so important? What do they do? Why?

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

Describe the effects of poverty on China's women and girls and why it is germane to the discussion of adoption.

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