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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 the social worker tell Nicole’s parents when she gave them the baby?

2. What kind of patient does Nicole say she always was?

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

4. How does Nicole characterize her response to the racial slurs she heard as a kid?

5. What information did Nicole get along with the non-identifying information from the hospital she was born in?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?

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

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

4. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?

5. What did Nicole find when she started to snoop around looking for clues about her adoption?

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

7. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?

8. What kind of relationship did Nicole think she would have with her birth family, before she started searching?

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

10. How does Nicole explain her parents’ refusal to delve into the complexities presented by her race?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What does All You Can Ever Know tell us about the adoption process? What do we learn from Nicole’s process of searching for birth parents? What do we learn from conclusions? How does this portrait of adoption resonate with you?

Essay Topic 2

Write a character sketch of the author based on her style and content. What can we tell about her, based on the choices she makes in terms of description, characterization and plot? What values does she hold dear? What are her hopes and fears? What kind of person do you think she is? Anchor your sketch in passages in the book.

Essay Topic 3

Nicole says that she never felt Korean enough for her parents, but her sister described her as very Americanized. How does Nicole determine how American to be? What does being American mean to her? What would “Korean enough” look like? How do these ideas change as Nicole gets to know her birth family better?

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