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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 dilated was Nicole when she showed up at the birthing center?
2. What does Nicole say she felt about her inability to follow the conversation when her father switched to Korean?
3. What did Cindy promise Nicole in her first letter?
4. Why does Nicole’s mother say she did not respond to Nicole’s birth mother when she reached out when Nicole was a child?
5. Whose books did Nicole’s father present to Nicole and Cindy?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nicole characterize the company in which she feels at home?
2. What information did Cindy get from her father when she asked him whether she had a sister?
3. What is it that seems wrong and off to Nicole, about her mother’s apologies?
4. What was the source of the anxiety Nicole felt in advance of meeting her birth father?
5. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?
6. How has Nicole’s understanding of adoption changed throughout the course of All You Can Ever Know?
7. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?
8. What was labor like for Nicole?
9. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?
10. How did Cindy get her father to admit that there was another sister?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What topics would you like to research further, after reading All You Can Ever Know? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on All You Can Ever Know.
Essay Topic 2
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 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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