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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The One-Child, Maybe-One-More Policy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the translation of the name given to many girls born into families without sons?
(a) "Bring a little brother."
(b) "Treasured one."
(c) "Extra mouth."
(d) "Not a boy."

2. Who is Mei Li?
(a) Their new baby.
(b) An old friend of Karin's.
(c) The head of the orphanage.
(d) Their baby's birth mother.

3. What leader celebrated the idea of "glorious mothers having more babies"?
(a) Mao Zedong.
(b) Deng Xiaoping.
(c) Chiang Kai-shek.
(d) Jiang Zemin.

4. In Adeline Yen Mah's memoir, what does she call a cheap commodity in China?
(a) Rice.
(b) Girls.
(c) Silk.
(d) Tea.

5. Of what TV show does Mark say the "soy or milk" formula debate reminds him?
(a) "The Brady Bunch."
(b) "Leave It to Beaver."
(c) "The Partridge Family."
(d) "Little Rascals."

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the "baiji"?

2. Which of these is NOT an interpretation of Kelly's given Chinese name?

3. At one time in history, what is cut into intricate pieces that fit like puzzles so that separated family could find one another?

4. What major catastrophe occurs in China in the late 1950s?

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

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