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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 many Koreans does Nicole say lived in the town she grew up in, other than her?
2. How much did was the bill for that Nicole found in her parents’ adoption box?
3. What was Nicole put off by when she first met Brenda?
4. What was the subject of the class Nicole and Dan took together in college?
5. What did the social worker tell Nicole’s parents when she gave them the baby?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the trope Nicole uses, to justify her long passages about her memories as a child of adoption?
2. What did Nicole find when she started to snoop around looking for clues about her adoption?
3. How does Nicole characterize her mother’s fears about her finding her birth parents?
4. How does Nicole say her parents viewed the adoption and the fact that she was Korean?
5. How does Nicole describe her relationship with the idea of her birth parents?
6. What strategies did Nicole develop as a young child, to combat other students’ race-based hostility toward her?
7. What information did Nicole learn from Donna, the search angel?
8. What does Nicole tell of her adoptive parents’ story?
9. What assurance did Nicole and Dan receive from Brenda?
10. What kind of adoption was arranged for Nicole and her birth parents?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Evaluate All You Can Ever Know as a bildungsroman, a coming-of-age narrative. What are the challenges Nicole faces in rites of passage in this memoir? How does she overcome these challenges, and what does she learn at each stage? What kind of person is she at the end?
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
Who is the audience for All You Can Ever Know? What is the ideal reader for All You Can Ever Know likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
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