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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 does Karin put in the notebook decorated with Chinese characters?

2. Where is the author's daughter born?

3. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?

4. What is a regional delicacy in Guangzhou that Karin is told tastes like peanuts?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a "bicultural identity"?

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

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

4. Describe the traffic in Guanzhou at night.

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

6. What is the mission of Families with Children from China?

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

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

9. Why do the backgrounds of many Chinese adoptees remain so unclear?

10. What is China's "dark side"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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

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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