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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 long before her visit did Cindy tell Nicole she was pregnant?
2. What did Nicole say Cindy promised to teach her?
3. What side of Nicole’s mother did Jessica reveal to her?
4. In what mannerism does Nicole say she and Cindy resembled each other?
5. Why does Nicole’s mother say she did not respond to Nicole’s birth mother when she reached out when Nicole was a child?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?
2. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?
3. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?
4. How do the routines of new parenthood change Nicole’s view of her own early months?
5. How did Cindy’s pregnancy affect her visit with Nicole and Dan?
6. How does Nicole characterize her role as an adoptee in contemporary America?
7. What books did Nicole’s father give to her and to Cindy?
8. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?
9. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?
10. What was Nicole’s mother’s reaction to Nicole’s new information about her birth family?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Write an evaluative review of All You Can Ever Know. What is this book’s place in our culture? Who will find this book most useful? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
Essay Topic 3
Nicole says that she never felt Korean enough for her parents, but her sister described her as very Americanized. How does Nicole determine how American to be? What does being American mean to her? What would “Korean enough” look like? How do these ideas change as Nicole gets to know her birth family better?
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