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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 old was Nicole when she got pregnant?
2. When does Nicole say she heard her first racial slur?
3. Who does Nicole say was the only person who knew she was looking for her birth parents?
4. What was Nicole’s husband Dan’s genetic heritage?
5. What does Nicole say the name Susan means?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Nicole say substituted for the Korean culture she lost?
2. How does Nicole characterize her mother’s fears about her finding her birth parents?
3. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?
4. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?
5. How does Cindy characterize her relationship with her parents, when Nicole gets in touch with her?
6. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?
7. Where were Nicole and Dan in their lives when she got pregnant and started to inquire into her birth family?
8. What did Nicole learn when she requested information from the hospital where she was born?
9. How does Nicole explain her parents’ refusal to delve into the complexities presented by her race?
10. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Who is the audience for All You Can Ever Know? What is the ideal reader for All You Can Ever Know likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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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