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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 start to look at through her child’s eyes?
2. What did Nicole say when a couple asked her if she ever felt like her parents were not her real parents?
3. What transition was taking place, that kept Nicole from looking into her birth parents’ identities?
4. How old was Cindy when her parents divorced?
5. What was the doctors’ prognosis for Nicole as a baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?
2. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?
3. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?
4. What assurance did Nicole and Dan receive from Brenda?
5. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?
6. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?
7. What kind of relationship did Nicole think she would have with her birth family, before she started searching?
8. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?
9. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?
10. What does Nicole say substituted for the Korean culture she lost?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 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
Would you recommend All You Can Ever Know? For what purposes would you recommend All You Can Ever Know, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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