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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 part of being in the military does Nicole say felt familiar to Cindy?

2. How does Nicole characterize the relationship she thought she would have with her birth parents?

3. What degree was Dan studying for when Nicole got pregnant?

4. Which term describes Nicole’s adoption?

5. What did the judge tell Nicole’s parents when he made the adoption official?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of adoption was arranged for Nicole and her birth parents?

2. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?

3. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?

4. What does Nicole say substituted for the Korean culture she lost?

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

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

7. How does Nicole characterize her mother’s fears about her finding her birth parents?

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

9. What strategies did Nicole develop as a young child, to combat other students’ race-based hostility toward her?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think Nicole’s adoptive family felt about her writing this book? What kinds of pressure would a family exert on an adopted child, to make a certain account? Imagine a conversation in which Nicole justifies including personal details, or her adoptive family prevails on her to exclude them.

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Nicole describes a number of experiences of racism, and she says that she feels an obligation, in a divided America, to speak up when she sees racist ideas raise their heads. What does Nicole’s book tell us about handling racism, and about reacting to it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nicole keeping her accounts of racism general and at a distance?

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