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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. What was Nicole put off by when she first met Brenda?
3. What does Nicole say she was apprehensive about, in contacting her parents?
4. How does Nicole characterize the typical story of adoption in movies or on TV?
5. When did Nicole get pregnant with her first child?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Nicole find in Seattle the first time she went there?
2. What kind of information did Nicole and Dan get about the pregnancy, and what kind of information did Nicole want?
3. Why did pregnancy lead Nicole to inquire into her birth family?
4. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?
5. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?
6. How does Nicole explain her parents’ refusal to delve into the complexities presented by her race?
7. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?
8. What kind of environment did Nicole and Dan find at Brenda’s birthing center?
9. What does Nicole say substituted for the Korean culture she lost?
10. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?
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
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
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?
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