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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nicole learn from her mother when she asked about the lawyer who handled the adoption?

2. Where did Cindy live after her parents divorced?

3. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with being Korean?

4. Why did Nicole write stories with adult characters?

5. How did Nicole’s father answer when she asked him if he ever thought about how she ended up with them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?

2. What did Nicole learn when she requested information from the hospital where she was born?

3. What kind of environment did Nicole and Dan find at Brenda’s birthing center?

4. What did Nicole find in Seattle the first time she went there?

5. What information did Nicole learn from Donna, the search angel?

6. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?

7. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?

8. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?

9. How did Nicole feel about opening the question of her birth family?

10. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nicole leaving out as much as she does about her marriage and her adoptive family? Do you think the book would benefit more by including more details about her home life and parents, her schooling and engagement, her career plans? What does Nicole gain by her omissions? What does her book lose?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate All You Can Ever Know as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Nicole faces in rites of passage in this memoir? How does she overcome these challenges, and what does she learn at each stage? What kind of person is she at the end?

Essay Topic 3

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

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