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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 assurance did Nicole’s mother give her, after Nicole found out that her birth mother was abusive?
(a) That she was raised in a different time and place.
(b) That violence is not genetic.
(c) That God would protect her and her child.
(d) That she could never hurt a child.

2. What did Nicole describe in detail to Cindy?
(a) Abigail eating.
(b) Abigail rolling over.
(c) Changing Abigail’s diaper.
(d) How exhausted she was.

3. How long before her visit did Cindy tell Nicole she was pregnant?
(a) A few days.
(b) A month.
(c) A few weeks.
(d) A week.

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

5. Why did Nicole not name her baby Susan?
(a) Dan insisted on Abigail because it was a family name.
(b) Nicole did not want the baby to resemble her.
(c) She didn't want to burden it with her history of adoption.
(d) Nicole’s mother got upset at the idea.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old was Nicole when she found out about her second pregnancy?

2. What did Cindy say when Nicole said that she did not know if they would ever become sisters?

3. What trait of Cindy’s was Nicole struck by when she arrived?

4. Where was Nicole experiencing pain during labor?

5. What kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the source of the anxiety Nicole felt in advance of meeting her birth father?

2. What does Nicole’s father tell her about his family’s lineage?

3. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?

4. What do Nicole and Cindy find they have in common when they meet?

5. What was Nicole’s mother’s reaction to Nicole’s new information about her birth family?

6. What books did Nicole’s father give to her and to Cindy?

7. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?

8. How does Nicole characterize the company in which she feels at home?

9. What does Nicole’s sister Jessica say she and her sister Cindy had been told about the baby who was given away?

10. What did Nicole call her father?

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