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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. When did Nicole get pregnant with her first child?

2. What was the doctors’ prognosis for Nicole as a baby?

3. How old was Cindy when she came to America?

4. What degree was Dan studying for when Nicole 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 is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?

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

3. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?

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

5. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?

6. What did Nicole find in Seattle the first time she went there?

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

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

9. What did Nicole learn when she requested information from the hospital where she was born?

10. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Evaluate All You Can Ever Know as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Nicole faces in rites of passage in this memoir? How does she overcome these challenges, and what does she learn at each stage? What kind of person is she at the end?

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

What topics would you like to research further, after reading All You Can Ever Know? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on All You Can Ever Know.

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