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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 does Nicole characterize her response to the racial slurs she heard as a kid?
2. How long did Nicole’s parents try for a pregnancy before they adopted her?
3. What does Nicole say the idea of contacting her birth parents was distracting from?
4. What information did Nicole get along with the non-identifying information from the hospital she was born in?
5. When did Nicole start to feel comfortable and anonymous in a crowd of Asian people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?
2. Where were Nicole and Dan in their lives when she got pregnant and started to inquire into her birth family?
3. How does Nicole characterize Cindy’s relationship with her Koreanness?
4. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?
5. What information did Nicole learn from Donna, the search angel?
6. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?
7. What ruse does Nicole employ when telling her mother that she is looking for her birth family?
8. How does Nicole characterize her discovery that race affected her?
9. What happened when Nicole’s birth mother tried to get in touch with her?
10. How did Nicole’s family information stack up against her husband Dan’s family’s information?
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
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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