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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. Which family member remained to be contacted after Nicole wrote her first letter?
2. What does Nicole say she felt while going through labor?
3. How long did it take Cindy to request a date to visit, after Nicole invited her?
4. What does Nicole say she could see more and more clearly, the more time she spent with Cindy?
5. What did Nicole describe in detail to Cindy?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why did it take so long for Nicole and Cindy to schedule a visit?
2. How does Nicole characterize her role as an adoptee in contemporary America?
3. What did Nicole tell her daughter Abigail when Abby started to ask questions about adoption?
4. What is the question Nicole never asked her father? Why did she not ask?
5. What did Nicole call her father?
6. What does Nicole’s sister Jessica say she and her sister Cindy had been told about the baby who was given away?
7. What was the source of the anxiety Nicole felt in advance of meeting her birth father?
8. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?
9. How did Cindy get her father to admit that there was another sister?
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
Evaluate your own reading of All You Can Ever Know—did you resist it, or were you compelled by the story? What does your reading tell you about yourself and your interests? Use specific examples from the book to describe yourself as a reader.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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