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

2. What does Nicole say she felt about herself in comparison to Cindy?

3. What did it mean for Nicole to find her birth family?

4. What did Nicole tell her mother about her adoption?

5. What did Nicole notice about her father’s carriage?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the routines of new parenthood change Nicole’s view of her own early months?

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

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

4. What is it that seems wrong and off to Nicole, about her mother’s apologies?

5. What was the source of the anxiety Nicole felt in advance of meeting her birth father?

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

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

8. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?

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

10. What do Nicole and Cindy find they have in common when they meet?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Nicole says that she found a society in people who were displaced or came from broken families. What does she have in common with those people, and what is the basis of their common ground? How does this book help build that common ground with readers?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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