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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?
A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

An ancestral memory

A future prediction

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

To dive into the sea

To run

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

Abrupt anguish

Hope

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

Her students

Her son

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

What to do about her apartment

Who to bequeath her money to

Which organization to donate to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
The question of who will arrange her affairs after her death.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

Her love for cherries.

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.
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?
Her human condition

Lovesickness

Historical atrocities

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker
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 attempted to commit suicide.

She crashed her car.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?
Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

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
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?
Inseon will otherwise have to give up her career as a hand model.

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

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

Arrogant

Bashful

Brash
15 What happened between Inseon and Kyungha when Inseon's mother began to decline?
They pair grew closer than ever.

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

Inseon grew more distant.

The friendship abruptly ended.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Why Inseon ran away.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

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

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I guess life goes on.

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

I'll carry on in any case.

I will never give up.
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 would find someone else to work with

That she already started

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 neighbors

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her birds

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

Her sanity

Her daughter's keys

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

Camera work

How to operate an electric saw

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

Gratitude

Horror

Disappointment
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 into documentary filmmaking.

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?
A strange tickling sensation

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

Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

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