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We Do Not Part Quiz for Part I (Chapters 1-3)

1 Which of the following is NOT a plausible translation of the original Korean title?
No Goodbye

We Release and Restore

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Bid Farewell
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?
A future prediction

A past personal experience

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

An ancestral memory
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To dive into the sea

To run

To recover the bones

To stop the flow of water
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
Hope

A bone-chilling awareness

A migraine

Abrupt anguish
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?
Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her son

Her students

Inseon
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Who to address the letter to

Who to bequeath her money to

Which organization to donate to

What to do about her apartment
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

The question of who will arrange her affairs after her death.

Her love for cherries.
8 What does Kyungha realize in the context of her nightmare?
She has to find a large-enough shovel.

She has to keep watching the incoming tide.

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

She has to turn her back on the bones if she wants to survive.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?
Historical atrocities

Lovesickness

Her human condition

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Mandarin harvester

Birdwatcher

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She crashed her car.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?
Rush Inseon back into surgery

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

Prick her finger sutures every three minutes with a needle to keep the nerves alive
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?
Inseon will otherwise have to give up her career as a hand model.

There is no way Inseon will be able to play instruments.

Inseon will have to chop the rest of her fingers to maintain balance.

If the nerves die, then Inseon will experience phantom pain.
14 Which best describes Kyungha's impression of Inseon?
Poised

Brash

Bashful

Arrogant
15 What happened between Inseon and Kyungha when Inseon's mother began to decline?
The friendship abruptly ended.

Though they fought like sisters, they stayed by each other's side.

Inseon grew more distant.

They pair grew closer than ever.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

Whether Inseon would collaborate with Kyungha on a project to address her nightmare.

Why Inseon ran away.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I will never give up.

I'll carry on in any case.

I guess life goes on.

I can't bear it, but I have to keep going.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she already started

That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she would find someone else to work with
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?
The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her birds

Her neighbors

Her mother
20 What does Kyungha leave behind upon Inseon's request that she depart immediately for Jeju?
Her daughter's keys

Her medication

Her documents

Her sanity
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?
How to operate an electric saw

Camera work

Jeju-mal

Poetry
22 What feeling overpowered Inseon when she was in high school?
Disappointment

Horror

Hatred

Gratitude
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?
She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell into documentary filmmaking.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She started living with her niece.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?
Dementia

Starvation

Cancer

Injuries from an old accident
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?
The hospital staff

A dream vision of a younger Inseon in which snow did not melt on her cheek.

A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

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