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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 trait of Cindy’s was Nicole struck by when she arrived?

2. Where was Nicole experiencing pain during labor?

3. How dilated was Nicole when she showed up at the birthing center?

4. What did Nicole fret about, in terms of a visit with Cindy?

5. What does Nicole say spiked in her after her birth?

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 get Cindy to discuss the hard things she had originally wanted to avoid talking about?

3. How does giving birth change Nicole’s view of her own birth?

4. How does Nicole characterize the company in which she feels at home?

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

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

7. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?

8. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How do you think Nicole’s adoptive family felt about her writing this book? What kinds of pressure would a family exert on an adopted child, to make a certain account? Imagine a conversation in which Nicole justifies including personal details, or her adoptive family prevails on her to exclude them.

Essay Topic 2

Identify the most important plot points in All You Can Ever Know. What is at stake in each of these moments? What possibilities do these moments present, and how are those possibilities channeled into specific actions or events? How does the plot chart its course among other alternative or possible plots?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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