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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 did Nicole’s mother’s phone call make Nicole feel about Cindy?
2. How long did it take Cindy to request a date to visit, after Nicole invited her?
3. How does Nicole say she referred to her father?
4. What was Nicole’s reaction when she heard her mother’s voice for the first time?
5. What trait did Nicole observe in her sister that Cindy said was a family trait?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was Nicole’s mother’s reaction to Nicole’s new information about her birth family?
2. How has Nicole’s understanding of adoption changed throughout the course of All You Can Ever Know?
3. What did Nicole learn about her father’s temperament during the visit?
4. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s temperament?
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. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?
8. What did Nicole call her father?
9. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?
10. What is it that seems wrong and off to Nicole, about her mother’s apologies?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Where does this book fit into the zeitgeist—i.e., what other resonance is there, for Nicole’s story? Where else do you see similar stories being told? What does Nicole have to offer that is unique in this book?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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