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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Search for Home.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a "shengyu zheng"?
(a) A birth permission paper.
(b) An adoption decree.
(c) A marriage license.
(d) A birth certificate.

2. What is an "iron rice bowl"?
(a) Long-term job security.
(b) A type of food-stamp program.
(c) A popular set of dishes.
(d) Rural China.

3. Who is it that parents photograph at one orphanage where they are the first people to pick up the babies?
(a) The housekeeper.
(b) The cook.
(c) The doorkeeper.
(d) The groundskeeper.

4. According to a folk tale Karin read, what are adopted children in China sometimes called?
(a) Children of the mulberry bug.
(b) Children of the wasps.
(c) Mulberry wasps.
(d) Boll worm babies.

5. Which of these is NOT part of the new playground built at the orphanage where Kelly lived?
(a) A Mickey Mouse ride.
(b) A sandbox.
(c) A slide.
(d) Swings.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Mark and Karin find between their beds in the hotel room?

2. What practice does Karin take up to help her de-stress?

3. Who says, "Women and people of low birth are hard to deal with"?

4. Which of these is a reason given by Chinese couples who adopted abandoned baby girls?

5. How old is the author's daughter when they adopt her?

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