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

2. Where are Karin and Mark told their daughter was found?

3. What is on the necklace Karin buys in the farmers' market?

4. In what year does the government announce its "one-child policy"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What kind of information is given to prospective parents after they are matched with a Chinese baby?

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

4. What is the significance of the phrase, "Heavy pressures that are difficult to explain"?

5. What does Karin mention about the Cantonese people?

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

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

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

9. Why are the baiji in danger?

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

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 ironic about the packing that Karin and Mark do for their trip to China? Why? How does she feel about it?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the significance of the baiji. What are they? How is their story connected to those of abandoned Chinese baby girls?

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