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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. How did Nicole’s parents explain the opportunity to adopt a child to themselves?

2. What does Nicole say the idea of contacting her birth parents was distracting from?

3. Where did Cindy move to after her freshman year of high school?

4. Why did Nicole write stories with adult characters?

5. What does Nicole say the name Susan means?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What assurance did Nicole and Dan receive from Brenda?

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

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

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

7. What is the story Nicole Chung says she was told about her adoption?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

Write an evaluative review of All You Can Ever Know. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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