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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 is the "dark side" to which Chinese journalists refer?

2. What is the title of the British documentary about Chinese orphanages?

3. What does Karin put in the notebook decorated with Chinese characters?

4. How old is the author's daughter when they adopt her?

5. How does the author refer to other girls adopted from China?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are the baiji in danger?

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

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

4. What is SOS Kinderdorf International?

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

6. What is, in Evans' mind, the most important finding to come out of a study on infant abandonment in China?

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

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

9. What is Karin's conclusion about her baby's mother?

10. Describe the traffic in Guanzhou at night.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is the symbolism of the comparison that Karin makes between her baby's footprint and the place of her birth?

Essay Topic 2

How does the Chinese story "The Lost Mare" relate to Karin and Mark's adoption process? What other "signs" does Karin see as being related to her situation?

Essay Topic 3

Explain the quote,"How sad to be a woman! Nothing on earth is held so cheap" (poet Fu Hsuan). What does this mean? What connection does it have with the current state of affairs in China? Is it an accurate statement? Why or why not?

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