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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 Bid Farewell

No Goodbye

We Do Not Part
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?

A future prediction

An ancestral memory

A past personal experience

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma
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

A bone-chilling awareness

Hope

Abrupt anguish
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?

Who to bequeath her money to

Who to address the letter to

What to do about her apartment

Which organization to donate 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 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 keep watching the incoming tide.

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

Lovesickness

Historical atrocities

Her human condition

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Mandarin harvester
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She crashed her car.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

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

Rush Inseon back into surgery

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

Prick her finger sutures every three minutes with a needle to keep the nerves alive

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?

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

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

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

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

Bashful

Arrogant

Brash

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

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

They pair grew closer than ever.

The friendship abruptly ended.

Inseon grew more distant.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Why Inseon ran away.

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 guess life goes on.

I'll carry on in any case.

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 already started

That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she never wanted to do it in the first place
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?

Her neighbors

Her birds

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

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?

Jeju-mal

Poetry

Camera work

How to operate an electric saw
22 What feeling overpowered Inseon when she was in high school?

Gratitude

Horror

Disappointment

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

She fell into documentary filmmaking.

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.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?

Cancer

Dementia

Starvation

Injuries from an old accident
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?

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

A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

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