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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Brenda doing when Nicole and Dan arrived at her birth class?
(a) Paperwork.
(b) Lighting candles.
(c) Stretching.
(d) Breathing exercises.
2. When did Nicole start to feel comfortable and anonymous in a crowd of Asian people?
(a) After college.
(b) High school.
(c) College.
(d) Middle school.
3. How many hours’ drive from Portland Oregon was Nicole’s hometown?
(a) 2.
(b) 6.
(c) 5.
(d) 9.
4. What does Nicole say she was looking for in Brenda’s birth class?
(a) Clear instructions.
(b) Philosophical frameworks.
(c) Spiritual grounding.
(d) Pain management techniques.
5. How long was Cindy deployed in Korea for?
(a) Eighteen years.
(b) A year and a half.
(c) Six months.
(d) Three years.
6. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with being Korean?
(a) She did not notice it.
(b) She loved and hated it.
(c) She hated it openly.
(d) She loved it but only in secret.
7. When does Nicole say her parents’ story began?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1973.
(c) 1998.
(d) 1968.
8. How does Nicole characterize the typical story of adoption in movies or on TV?
(a) Long-estranged family members reconnect.
(b) A child is saved from destitution.
(c) An infertile mother is redeemed.
(d) A child learns to love herself.
9. What was the doctors’ prognosis for Nicole as a baby?
(a) She would live a normal life as soon as she gained enough weight.
(b) She would recover after a few months and live a normal life.
(c) She would recover after a few years and live a normal life.
(d) She would struggle with her health all her life.
10. What had Nicole’s birth mother done right before her premature labor started?
(a) Yelled at Cindy.
(b) Gone for a long walk.
(c) Beaten Cindy.
(d) Cooked a big meal.
11. How does Nicole characterize her father’s expectations for Cindy, when Cindy went to live with him?
(a) Punishing.
(b) High.
(c) Low.
(d) Indifferent.
12. How old was Nicole when the couple asked her about adoption?
(a) Mid-twenties.
(b) A few months out of college.
(c) Freshman year of college.
(d) Junior year of high school.
13. What information did Nicole get along with the non-identifying information from the hospital she was born in?
(a) A list of relatives in the U.S. and Korea.
(b) The name of the doctors who had taken care of her.
(c) A map of the town her parents came from.
(d) A list of intermediaries who could contact her birth parents.
14. How does Nicole characterize the relationship she thought she would have with her birth parents?
(a) Nothing better than estrangement.
(b) A long-distance friendship.
(c) Long, deep instant friendship.
(d) Passing friendship.
15. What kind of information would the hospital workers give Nicole about childbirth?
(a) Nutritional information for pregnancy.
(b) Check-in procedures.
(c) A spiritual guide to pregnancy.
(d) Exercises for pelvic health.
Short Answer Questions
1. How did Nicole’s parents tell her to handle the racism she encountered?
2. What does Nicole say substituted for her lack of Korean heritage?
3. Where did Cindy attend basic training?
4. What was Nicole’s husband Dan’s genetic heritage?
5. How does Nicole characterize her family’s reaction to her Koreanness?
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