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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Down the River.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the most common method used to commit suicide by Chinese rural women?
(a) Poison by agricultural pesticide.
(b) Self-starvation.
(c) Hanging.
(d) Stabbing.

2. Which of these places is NOT mentioned as a new home of a Chinese baby?
(a) Atlanta.
(b) Boston.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Chicago.

3. What does the author say the book is for a general audience?
(a) True stories about birth parents.
(b) A way to fill in the blanks of an important human interaction.
(c) A way to tell about the culture from which these Chinese girls came.
(d) Her own memoirs.

4. Which of these groups is NOT one the author and her husband sought support from?
(a) Other adoptive parents.
(b) Their families.
(c) Friends.
(d) The clergy.

5. What is the name of Karin and Mark's new puppy?
(a) Chichi.
(b) Maddy.
(c) Annie.
(d) Kelly.

Short Answer Questions

1. After a baby is born, what do rural Chinese people bury outside the home if it is a girl, and inside if it is a boy?

2. What does Karin put in the notebook decorated with Chinese characters?

3. Which of these is NOT an item mentioned as having been found with an abandoned baby?

4. What is a "hutang"?

5. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?

(see the answer key)

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