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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 patient does Nicole say she always was?
2. How does Nicole characterize her adoptive mother’s hair?
3. How many Koreans does Nicole say lived in the town she grew up in, other than her?
4. When does Nicole say her parents’ story began?
5. What does Nicole say her mind was fixated on, after her first prenatal visit?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Nicole learn when she requested information from the hospital where she was born?
2. What strategies did Nicole develop as a young child, to combat other students’ race-based hostility toward her?
3. How does Cindy characterize her relationship with her parents, when Nicole gets in touch with her?
4. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?
5. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?
6. How does Nicole say her parents decided to go forward with the adoption?
7. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?
8. What assurance did Nicole and Dan receive from Brenda?
9. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?
10. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s childhood?
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
What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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