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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. How does Nicole say she views adoption now, instead of as good or bad?
2. What does Nicole say spiked in her after her birth?
3. What did Nicole’s father’s first letter ask her for?
4. What did the clerk at the wine shop make Nicole and Cindy laugh at?
5. How does Nicole characterize the color of her baby’s eyes?
Short Essay Questions
1. What could Cindy tell Nicole about their father?
2. How has Nicole’s understanding of adoption changed throughout the course of All You Can Ever Know?
3. What books did Nicole’s father give to her and to Cindy?
4. What information does Nicole get from Cindy’s photographs?
5. How does Nicole get Cindy to discuss the hard things she had originally wanted to avoid talking about?
6. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?
7. How do the routines of new parenthood change Nicole’s view of her own early months?
8. How does Nicole characterize her role as an adoptee in contemporary America?
9. What did Nicole learn about her father’s temperament during the visit?
10. What was labor like for Nicole?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Would you recommend All You Can Ever Know? For what purposes would you recommend All You Can Ever Know, and what kinds of readers would you recommend it for? What other book would you recommend that would cover the same material or tell the same story in a different way?
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 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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