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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. Who is Mei Li?

2. What novel does Evans mention as having a character who strangles a newborn girl?

3. What practice does Karin take up to help her de-stress?

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

5. Who does Karin visit far up the Nathan Road?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Karin's view of parenthood differ from Jill Ker Conway's?

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

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

5. What leads to the famine of 1958-61?

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

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

8. Why does Evans write this book?

9. Why are girls expected to feel lucky just to be alive, particularly during the hardest times?

10. How do Karin and her daughter spend their first afternoon together?

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 controversy over the condition of orphanages in China? Please give evidence to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

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

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