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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. When was the study conducted about excessive drinking among Native Americans, as referred to in Chapter 6 of "The Broken Cord"?
2. In Chapter 6 of "The Broken Cord" Michael recounted a story about drinking heavily with a girlfriend and neither of them realizing she had broken a bone in what part of her body?
3. Michael mentioned in Chapter 3 that he was offered a teaching job where?
4. In Chapter 6 of "The Broken Cord" who did Michael overhear talking about Adam's birth parents?
5. When Michael was contacted about adopting Adam, besides being in poor health and small for his age, Adam was also reported to be what?
Short Essay Questions
1. By adopting Adam, what did Michael believe about Adam's quality of life compared to not adopting him, as noted in details provided in Chapter 4 through 6 of the book?
2. How old was Michael and where was he living when he decided he wanted to have a child of his own?
3. In Chapter 6 of "The Broken Cord" what happened with Michael and a girlfriend that drank heavily one night?
4. What happened with Adam's hair on the trip for the naming ceremony?
5. What advice did a nurse at the hospital in Littleton give when she found out Michael was in the process of adopting Adam?
6. What was Louise's position on alcohol rehabilitation programs?
7. How did Michael's dream the night before the naming ceremony end up being connected with the ceremony?
8. How did Adam end up at the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital and why?
9. In the Foreword, what did Louise describe as the most "damaging aspect" of fetal alcohol syndrome and why?
10. What happened when Michael took Adam for testing by a professional psychologist in Chapter 5 of "The Broken Cord?"
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Michael detailed the economic impact of alcoholism in the last chapters of the book in connection with children with FAS who grow into adulthood. Louise described in the Foreword the economic responsibility she felt liquor businesses had to help rehabilitate alcoholics. What were the specifics of each argument in relation to fetal alcohol syndrome/effect, parental responsibility, economic impact for non productive citizens, etc; and what made each argument effective, ineffective?
Essay Topic 2
Adam had to see various medical professionals throughout his life. Identify who were some of the more significant medical professionals that impacted Adam's life discuss how their diagnoses and/or responses to Adam affected Michael's perceptions about them and Adam's capabilities.
Essay Topic 3
Discuss the implications of reservation life for children with FAS versus children not suffering with FAS, as well as the general reservation conditions and environment that may/may not have contributed to the high incidence of children born with FAS among Native Americans.
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