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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 was the opportunity Jessica saw in Nicole contacting the birth family?
2. How does Nicole describe the feeling that she and Cindy are finally sisters?
3. What does Nicole say she felt while going through labor?
4. Who broke the ice when Nicole’s father came to visit?
5. What does Nicole say everyone should understand about adoption?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Nicole characterize the company in which she feels at home?
2. What did Cindy say made her apprehensive about getting pregnant?
3. What did Nicole learn about her father’s temperament during the visit?
4. What do Nicole and Cindy find they have in common when they meet?
5. How does Nicole characterize her role as an adoptee in contemporary America?
6. Where does Nicole say the real lessons came from, in her experience of searching for her birth parents?
7. What information did Cindy get from her father when she asked him whether she had a sister?
8. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?
9. What was labor like for Nicole?
10. What did Nicole call her father?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What does All You Can Ever Know tell us about being Korean, generally? What does it tell us about being American? What kind of belonging is possible through national identity? What are the trappings of that identity? What does being white mean to Nicole?
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
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.
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