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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?
We Release and Restore

We Do Not Part

No Goodbye

We Do Not Bid Farewell
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?
A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

An ancestral memory

A past personal experience

A future prediction
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To run

To stop the flow of water

To recover the bones

To dive into the sea
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
A migraine

Hope

Abrupt anguish

A bone-chilling awareness
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?
Inseon

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her son

Her students
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Which organization to donate to

Who to address the letter to

What to do about her apartment

Who to bequeath her money to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

Her love for cherries.

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

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.
8 What does Kyungha realize in the context of her nightmare?
She has to find a large-enough shovel.

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

She has to turn her back on the bones if she wants to survive.

She has to keep watching the incoming tide.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?
Lovesickness

Her human condition

Historical atrocities

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester

Construction worker
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She crashed her car.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?
Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

Prick her finger sutures every three minutes with a needle to keep the nerves alive

Rush Inseon back into surgery

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?
Inseon will have to chop the rest of her fingers to maintain balance.

If the nerves die, then Inseon will experience phantom pain.

Inseon will otherwise have to give up her career as a hand model.

There is no way Inseon will be able to play instruments.
14 Which best describes Kyungha's impression of Inseon?
Arrogant

Brash

Poised

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

They pair grew closer than ever.

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

Inseon grew more distant.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

Why Inseon ran away.

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

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I can't bear it, but I have to keep going.

I will never give up.

I'll carry on in any case.

I guess life goes on.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she already started

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she would find someone else to work with

That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?
Her mother

Her birds

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her neighbors
20 What does Kyungha leave behind upon Inseon's request that she depart immediately for Jeju?
Her medication

Her sanity

Her documents

Her daughter's keys
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?
Camera work

Jeju-mal

How to operate an electric saw

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

Gratitude

Hatred

Horror
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?
She fell into documentary filmmaking.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

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

Injuries from an old accident

Dementia

Starvation
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.

Inseon's cousin

A strange tickling sensation

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