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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 kind of information would the hospital workers give Nicole about childbirth?
2. What had Nicole’s birth mother done right before her premature labor started?
3. How much did was the bill for that Nicole found in her parents’ adoption box?
4. What was Brenda doing when Nicole and Dan arrived at her birth class?
5. What transition was taking place, that kept Nicole from looking into her birth parents’ identities?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Nicole feel about opening the question of her birth family?
2. What does the title of the memoir refer to?
3. What happened when Nicole’s birth mother tried to get in touch with her?
4. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?
5. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?
6. How does Nicole explain her parents’ refusal to delve into the complexities presented by her race?
7. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?
8. What information did Nicole learn from Donna, the search angel?
9. What kind of environment did Nicole and Dan find at Brenda’s birthing center?
10. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
When is All You Can Ever Know most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
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
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?
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