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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does it mean when the street vendors call "you liangge yo-o-o"?
(a) "Tourists!"
(b) "Look, Americans!"
(c) "There are two of them!"
(d) "They are blond!"

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

3. In what year does China enact an international adoption law?
(a) 1992.
(b) 1990.
(c) 1996.
(d) 1987.

4. What is the meaning of "Xiao," the first part of all the little girls' names?
(a) River.
(b) Jade.
(c) Little.
(d) Education.

5. Which of these is NOT mentioned as a place where babies are abandoned?
(a) Schools.
(b) Railroad stations.
(c) Along roads.
(d) Hospitals.

6. 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?
(a) A lock of hair.
(b) The placenta.
(c) An offering to the gods.
(d) The umbilical cord.

7. How many wars of foreign aggression has China endured in the past 300 years?
(a) 6.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

8. What is printed on the T-shirt Kelly wore from the orphanage?
(a) McDonald's.
(b) Gucci.
(c) Trump's Castle Casino Resort.
(d) Disney World.

9. What is a regional delicacy in Guangzhou that Karin is told tastes like peanuts?
(a) Fried moths.
(b) Fried silkworms.
(c) Fried grasshoppers.
(d) Fried mulberry leaves.

10. About how long does it take for adoptive parents to move from the first meeting in an adoption agency to meeting their child?
(a) One year.
(b) Six months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Eighteen months.

11. What is the common name of the system that favors boys over girls?
(a) "Boy preference."
(b) "Daughter disappointment."
(c) "Chosen boys."
(d) "Son preference."

12. What is China's overall ratio of boys to girls in 1998?
(a) 105:100.
(b) 85:100.
(c) 120:100.
(d) 100:100.

13. Where are Karin and Mark told their daughter was found?
(a) Beside the highway.
(b) In a dumpster.
(c) Under a bridge.
(d) In a market.

14. What is the period of Mao Zedong's reforms called?
(a) The Great Leap Forward.
(b) The Mao Dynasty.
(c) The New Deal.
(d) The Golden Age.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the estimated cost of adopting a child from China?

2. What is the number of people in China the government admitted was too poor to afford clothes and food?

3. What is the popular name of legendary heroine Fa Mu Lan?

4. Who is Mei Li?

5. Where is China's leader, Jiang Zemin, at the time Karin and Mark fly to China?

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