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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?

An ancestral memory

A future prediction

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

A past personal experience
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?

To run

To recover the bones

To dive into the sea

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

A migraine

Abrupt anguish

A bone-chilling awareness

Hope
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?

Her son

Her students

Inseon

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?

Which organization to donate to

What to do about her apartment

Who to bequeath her money to

Who to address the letter to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?

Her love for cherries.

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

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

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.
8 What does Kyungha realize in the context of her nightmare?

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.

She has to find a large-enough shovel.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?

Lovesickness

Her human condition

Chronic pain

Historical atrocities
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Construction worker

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Mandarin harvester

Birdwatcher
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She crashed her car.
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

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

Rush Inseon back into surgery
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?

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

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

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

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

Brash

Poised

Bashful

Arrogant
15 What happened between Inseon and Kyungha when Inseon's mother began to decline?

They pair grew closer than ever.

The friendship abruptly ended.

Inseon grew more distant.

Though they fought like sisters, they stayed by each other's side.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?

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

Why Inseon ran away.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?

I can't bear it, but I have to keep going.

I'll carry on in any case.

I guess life goes on.

I will never give up.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?

That she would find someone else to work with

That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she already started
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?

Her birds

Her mother

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 daughter's keys

Her documents

Her sanity
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?

Camera work

Poetry

How to operate an electric saw

Jeju-mal
22 What feeling overpowered Inseon when she was in high school?

Hatred

Gratitude

Disappointment

Horror
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?

She fell into documentary filmmaking.

She started living with her niece.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?

Injuries from an old accident

Starvation

Cancer

Dementia
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?

A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

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

The hospital staff

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