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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. Where did Nicole first see a city full of Asian people?
2. What does Nicole say she could never be certain of, if she got in touch with her family?
3. What does Nicole say she was looking for in Brenda’s birth class?
4. How old was Nicole when she got pregnant?
5. Who did Nicole look for, the first time she went to a city with a large Asian population?
Short Essay Questions
1. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?
2. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?
3. What does the title of the memoir refer to?
4. What happened when Nicole’s birth mother tried to get in touch with her?
5. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?
6. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?
7. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?
8. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?
9. What did Nicole find when she started to snoop around looking for clues about her adoption?
10. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
Where does this book fit into the zeitgeist—i.e., what other resonance is there, for Nicole’s story? Where else do you see similar stories being told? What does Nicole have to offer that is unique in this book?
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