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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’s father’s first letter ask her for?
2. What did Nicole say about her mother’s wrongdoings?
3. What did Nicole tell her mother about her adoption?
4. What does Nicole say about the public role she has taken, now that she has found her birth family?
5. Which family member remained to be contacted after Nicole wrote her first letter?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?
2. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?
3. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?
4. What is it that seems wrong and off to Nicole, about her mother’s apologies?
5. What did Nicole call her father?
6. What did Nicole tell her daughter Abigail when Abby started to ask questions about adoption?
7. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?
8. What did Nicole learn about her father’s temperament during the visit?
9. What was labor like for Nicole?
10. What does Nicole’s father tell her about his family’s lineage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Nicole says that she found a society in people who were displaced or came from broken families. What does she have in common with those people, and what is the basis of their common ground? How does this book help build that common ground with readers?
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
What does All You Can Ever Know tell us about being Korean, generally? What does it tell us about being American? What kind of belonging is possible through national identity? What are the trappings of that identity? What does being white mean to Nicole?
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