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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concern led Nicole to search out her birth parents?
(a) Ignorance about what might be in her genes.
(b) Confusion about contrasting stories.
(c) Need for money.
(d) Concern about religion.

2. How did Nicole’s parents explain the opportunity to adopt a child to themselves?
(a) As a divine synchronicity.
(b) As a great chance.
(c) As God’s will.
(d) As a fortuitous twist of fate.

3. Why did Nicole write stories with adult characters?
(a) Because they could leave their parents behind.
(b) Because they always had money.
(c) Because they had control over their lives.
(d) Because they had left their hometowns.

4. How does Nicole say her parents returned to religion?
(a) After a crisis.
(b) By chance.
(c) By invitation.
(d) By choice.

5. What does Nicole say Cindy would always hear a voice telling her, when she lived with her father after her parents divorced?
(a) Her family’s business did not concern other people.
(b) She had a gift that had to be cultivated.
(c) She should never be too proud to ask for help.
(d) If she was not always excellent, she might be given up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did Nicole’s parents try for a pregnancy before they adopted her?

2. How old was Nicole when the couple asked her about adoption?

3. When Nicole asked herself what she wanted, what did she say?

4. How many hours’ drive from Portland Oregon was Nicole’s hometown?

5. How does Nicole characterize her adoptive mother’s hair?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?

2. What is the story Nicole Chung says she was told about her adoption?

3. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?

4. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?

5. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?

6. What did Nicole find in Seattle the first time she went there?

7. How did Nicole feel about opening the question of her birth family?

8. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?

9. What does Nicole say substituted for the Korean culture she lost?

10. What kind of environment did Nicole and Dan find at Brenda’s birthing center?

(see the answer keys)

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