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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 did Rick say Nicole’s fathers body language suggested?

2. How does Cindy characterize her mother’s life?

3. What was Nicole’s father’s response, when Cindy asked if she had a sister he had not told her about?

4. What promise did Nicole make to her children about her history?

5. How regular was Cindy’s mother’s physical abuse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the relationship between Grace and Abigail reflect Nicole’s relationship with Cindy back to her?

2. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

3. How does Nicole get Cindy to discuss the hard things she had originally wanted to avoid talking about?

4. What could Cindy tell Nicole about their father?

5. What does Nicole’s sister Jessica say she and her sister Cindy had been told about the baby who was given away?

6. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?

7. What was labor like for Nicole?

8. How did Cindy get her father to admit that there was another sister?

9. What did Nicole call her father?

10. How has Nicole’s understanding of adoption changed throughout the course of All You Can Ever Know?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Where is the climax of this book? Are there different climaxes? What questions does each climax resolve? What questions does each climax leave unanswered?

Essay Topic 2

Evaluate the ending of All You Can Ever Know. Does it ring true to you? Does it successfully resolve the problems and tensions that preceded it? What would you change, if anything? What are you left wishing for closure on, if anything?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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