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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. Who did Nicole look for, the first time she went to a city with a large Asian population?
2. Where did Cindy learn to work hard, in Nicole’s account?
3. How much did was the bill for that Nicole found in her parents’ adoption box?
4. How did Nicole sign her letter to her mother?
5. What does Nicole say she was apprehensive about, in contacting her parents?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?
2. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?
3. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?
4. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?
5. How does Cindy characterize her relationship with her parents, when Nicole gets in touch with her?
6. What kind of environment did Nicole and Dan find at Brenda’s birthing center?
7. What is the story Nicole Chung says she was told about her adoption?
8. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?
9. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?
10. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Identify the most important plot points in All You Can Ever Know. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?
Essay Topic 3
Nicole describes a number of experiences of racism, and she says that she feels an obligation, in a divided America, to speak up when she sees racist ideas raise their heads. What does Nicole’s book tell us about handling racism, and about reacting to it? What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nicole keeping her accounts of racism general and at a distance?
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