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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. Whose books did Nicole’s father present to Nicole and Cindy?

2. What time of year did Nicole hear from her sister Jessica?

3. What did Nicole fear her father was ashamed of her for?

4. Who brought Cindy and her father together, to talk about Nicole’s adoption?

5. Why could Nicole not read her father’s book?

Short Essay Questions

1. What could Cindy tell Nicole about their father?

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

3. What books did Nicole’s father give to her and to Cindy?

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

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

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

7. What was Nicole’s mother’s reaction to Nicole’s new information about her birth family?

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

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

10. What information does Nicole get from Cindy’s photographs?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

Essay Topic 2

What are the advantages and disadvantages of Nicole leaving out as much as she does about her marriage and her adoptive family? Do you think the book would benefit more by including more details about her home life and parents, her schooling and engagement, her career plans? What does Nicole gain by her omissions? What does her book lose?

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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