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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 Bid Farewell

We Do Not Part

No Goodbye

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

An ancestral memory

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

A past personal experience

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

To run

To dive into the sea

To stop the flow of water

To recover the bones
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?

Abrupt anguish

A bone-chilling awareness

Hope

A migraine
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?

Inseon

Her son

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

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 need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

Her love for cherries.

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 find a large-enough shovel.

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

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

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

Historical atrocities

Chronic pain

Her human condition

Lovesickness
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester

Construction worker

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?

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

Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers
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.

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

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

They pair grew closer than ever.

Inseon grew more distant.

The friendship abruptly ended.

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.

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

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Why Inseon ran away.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?

I'll carry on in any case.

I will never give up.

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 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 mother

Her neighbors

Her birds

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about
20 What does Kyungha leave behind upon Inseon's request that she depart immediately for Jeju?

Her documents

Her sanity

Her medication

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

Poetry

How to operate an electric saw

Camera work

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

Horror

Disappointment

Hatred

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

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She started living with her niece.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She fell into documentary filmmaking.
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

Inseon's cousin

A strange tickling sensation

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

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