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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Cindy tell Nicole their father felt, when he was confronted with the story of the adoption?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Shame.
(d) Eagerness to set things right.

2. What did Cindy tell Nicole their parents’ fights were mostly concerned with?
(a) Their mother’s abuse of Cindy.
(b) Their mother’s drinking.
(c) Their father’s travel.
(d) Their father’s gambling.

3. What side of Nicole’s mother did Jessica reveal to her?
(a) She could be funny and charming.
(b) She was a devout Christian.
(c) She was a brilliant intellectual.
(d) She was a caring nurse.

4. How does Nicole characterize the color of her baby’s eyes?
(a) Arresting blue.
(b) Glowing green.
(c) Profound brown.
(d) Pale, almost white blue.

5. What did Nicole tell her mother about her adoption?
(a) That she wanted to find a good way to make peace with her.
(b) That she did not blame her.
(c) That it scarred her.
(d) That she stopped blaming her.

6. What was Nicole afraid her sisters might think about her?
(a) That the adoption was her fault.
(b) That she wanted retribution.
(c) That she was manipulating them.
(d) That she was lying to them.

7. How does Nicole say she views adoption now, instead of as good or bad?
(a) Caring or harmful.
(b) Realistic or oversimplified.
(c) Productive or unproductive.
(d) Intimate or distant.

8. What did Cindy thank Nicole for on the second morning of their visit?
(a) Contacting their father.
(b) Not remaining a secret.
(c) Contacting their mother.
(d) Making their mother apologize.

9. What did Cindy tell Nicole their mother blamed the adoption on?
(a) Her own health.
(b) The family’s poverty.
(c) Her depression.
(d) Her husband.

10. How old was Nicole when she found out about her second pregnancy?
(a) 25.
(b) 29.
(c) 27.
(d) 31.

11. Why does Nicole say she cannot tell her mother not to call her?
(a) Because her mother’s sins were not against her.
(b) Because her mother has asked for her forgiveness.
(c) Because she understands where her mother’s suffering came from.
(d) Because her mother has called anyway, when she told her not to.

12. How did Cindy characterize her father’s temperament to Nicole in advance of his visit?
(a) Fawning.
(b) Genial.
(c) Blunt.
(d) Reactionary.

13. What does Nicole say spiked in her after her birth?
(a) Forgiveness.
(b) Religiousness.
(c) A heart for justice.
(d) Maternal instincts.

14. How does Cindy characterize her mother’s life?
(a) Disappointing.
(b) Tumultuous.
(c) Active.
(d) Infuriating.

15. What does Nicole say the tutor did for her, in teaching her Korean?
(a) Dissolved her shame.
(b) Took her home.
(c) Cracked her heart open to new feelings.
(d) Demystified her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize her father’s temperament?

2. In what mannerism does Nicole say she and Cindy resembled each other?

3. What does Nicole say she felt while going through labor?

4. What was Nicole afraid of in meeting her birth father?

5. What did the clerk at the wine shop make Nicole and Cindy laugh at?

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