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This test consists of 5 short answer questions and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What major news magazine runs a cover story on genealogy in 1999?

2. What Akira Kurosawa film that ends with the finding of a baby does Karin watch?

3. What does Evans cite as all children's worst enemy?

4. In what year does "The Dying Rooms" premiere on American television?

5. What is the name of the national organization for single parents of Chinese children?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe China's "one-child policy." Why does it start? Is that an accurate name? How is it enforced?

Essay Topic 2

What is the message Karin draws from a needle she found stuck in her quilt? Why is it especially meaningful to her at the time?

Essay Topic 3

How is adoption today different from adoption in the mid-twentieth century? What have today's adoptive parents learned from those now-grown adopted children?

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