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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 Cindy tell Nicole their father felt, when he was confronted with the story of the adoption?

2. Why does Nicole say that traits that did not make sense to her parents would make sense to her father?

3. How old was Nicole when she found out about her second pregnancy?

4. What had just happened when Nicole’s mother called after the baby was born?

5. What does Nicole say made her sisters with Cindy?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Nicole characterize her relationship with the newborn baby?

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

3. What does Nicole’s father tell her about his family’s lineage?

4. Under what circumstances did Nicole’s birth mother call her?

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

6. How did Cindy’s pregnancy affect her visit with Nicole and Dan?

7. How does Nicole get Cindy to discuss the hard things she had originally wanted to avoid talking about?

8. How has Nicole’s understanding of adoption changed throughout the course of All You Can Ever Know?

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

10. What was labor like for Nicole?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

What topics would you like to research further, after reading All You Can Ever Know? Describe why additional research or reading would be beneficial to an understanding of this book. Propose a list of articles or books you would read in order to get a better handle on All You Can Ever Know.

Essay Topic 3

What is missing from this book? What should have been covered or presented that was not? What is the effect of this absence? Describe an element that ought to have been covered, and explain why it would have made the book stronger.

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