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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 promise did Nicole make to her children about her history?

2. In what mannerism does Nicole say she and Cindy resembled each other?

3. How does Nicole characterize her father’s temperament?

4. What kind of sign did Nicole see in her parents having hidden the fact of the adoption?

5. What did Cindy promise Nicole in her first letter?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?

3. What did Nicole call her father?

4. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?

5. What do Nicole and Cindy find they have in common when they meet?

6. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?

7. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?

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

9. How did Cindy’s pregnancy affect her visit with Nicole and Dan?

10. What information did Cindy get from her father when she asked him whether she had a sister?

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

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 3

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

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