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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 Do Not Part

No Goodbye

We Do Not Bid Farewell

We Release and Restore
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?

A past personal experience

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

An ancestral memory

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

To recover the bones

To stop the flow of water

To run

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

A bone-chilling awareness

Abrupt anguish

A migraine

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

Her son

Inseon

Her students

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

Who to bequeath her money to

What to do about her apartment

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 keep watching the incoming tide.

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

She has to find a large-enough shovel.

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

Lovesickness

Historical atrocities

Chronic pain

Her human condition
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Mandarin harvester

Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She crashed her car.

She attempted to commit suicide.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?

Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

Rush Inseon back into surgery

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

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

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

Inseon will otherwise have to give up her career as a hand model.
14 Which best describes Kyungha's impression of Inseon?

Poised

Brash

Arrogant

Bashful
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 she could help take care of the budgies.

Why Inseon ran away.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether Inseon would collaborate with Kyungha on a project to address her nightmare.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?

I will never give up.

I'll carry on in any case.

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

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 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?

Her neighbors

Her mother

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

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

Her sanity

Her daughter's keys

Her documents

Her medication
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

Gratitude

Horror

Hatred
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 started living with her niece.

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

Injuries from an old accident

Dementia

Cancer

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.

A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

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