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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How many hours’ drive from Portland Oregon was Nicole’s hometown?
(a) 5.
(b) 2.
(c) 6.
(d) 9.
2. How much did Nicole weigh when she was born?
(a) Under five pounds.
(b) More than seven pounds.
(c) Between five and six pounds.
(d) Between six and seven pounds.
3. How did Nicole’s father answer when she asked him if he ever thought about how she ended up with them?
(a) He never thought about it.
(b) It was a puzzle he thought about all the time.
(c) It was just Fate.
(d) God wanted them to have her.
4. What was Nicole doing when Donna called to say she had contacted her birth family?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Driving.
(c) Folding baby clothes.
(d) Cooking.
5. What kind of patient does Nicole say she always was?
(a) The kind to request heavy drugs.
(b) The kind to refuse to take drugs.
(c) The kind who collapsed and let herself be cared for.
(d) The kind to use homemade remedies.
6. Where had Nicole’s parents moved from, when they had her and gave her up for adoption?
(a) Guam.
(b) Korea.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Hawaii.
7. Which term describes Nicole’s adoption?
(a) Unofficial.
(b) Bureaucratically complex.
(c) Expedited.
(d) Meticulous.
8. How does Nicole characterize her response to the racial slurs she heard as a kid?
(a) Cool disdain.
(b) Passive endurance.
(c) Furious indignation.
(d) Violence.
9. What information did Nicole get along with the non-identifying information from the hospital she was born in?
(a) A list of intermediaries who could contact her birth parents.
(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 relatives in the U.S. and Korea.
10. What did Nicole say when a couple asked her if she ever felt like her parents were not her real parents?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) All the time.
(c) Rarely.
(d) Never.
11. Who did Nicole look for, the first time she went to a city with a large Asian population?
(a) Her father.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Her sister.
(d) Her brother.
12. How does Nicole characterize the typical story of adoption in movies or on TV?
(a) A child learns to love herself.
(b) A child is saved from destitution.
(c) Long-estranged family members reconnect.
(d) An infertile mother is redeemed.
13. What did Nicole say she had to show respect for when she had doubts about her adoption narrative?
(a) Her parents’ sacrifice.
(b) The synchronicity that brought her to her parents.
(c) The church’s beneficence in finding her new parents.
(d) The doctors’ skills in saving her.
14. What part of being in the military does Nicole say felt familiar to Cindy?
(a) Helping needy people.
(b) Being violent.
(c) Being a subordinate.
(d) Protecting people.
15. How old was Nicole when the couple asked her about adoption?
(a) Mid-twenties.
(b) Freshman year of college.
(c) A few months out of college.
(d) Junior year of high school.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the social worker tell Nicole’s parents when she gave them the baby?
2. Where did Nicole’s mother start out, before she moved west?
3. What was the subject of the class Nicole and Dan took together in college?
4. How long was Cindy deployed in Korea for?
5. How did Nicole’s parents tell her to handle the racism she encountered?
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