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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 Release and Restore

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 dive into the sea

To recover the bones
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
Abrupt anguish

Hope

A bone-chilling awareness

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

Her students

Inseon

Her son
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Who to bequeath her money to

What to do about her apartment

Which organization to donate to

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

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

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

Her love for cherries.
8 What does Kyungha realize in the context of her nightmare?
She has to turn her back on the bones if she wants to survive.

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.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?
Her human condition

Historical atrocities

Lovesickness

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Mandarin harvester

Birdwatcher

Construction worker

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.

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

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

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.

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?
Bashful

Brash

Arrogant

Poised
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.

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

I will never give up.

I guess life goes on.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she already started

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 mother

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

Her daughter's keys

Her sanity

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

Jeju-mal

Camera work

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

Hatred

Horror

Disappointment
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

Cancer

Starvation

Dementia
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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