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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

No Goodbye

We Do Not Part

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

A future prediction

An ancestral memory
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To dive into the sea

To run

To stop the flow of water

To recover the bones
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?
Inseon

Her students

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her son
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

Who to bequeath her money to

What to do about her apartment
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 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

Her human condition

Chronic pain

Lovesickness
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Mandarin harvester
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She attempted to commit suicide.

She crashed her car.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?
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

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?
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?
Arrogant

Brash

Bashful

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.

Inseon grew more distant.

They pair grew closer than ever.

The friendship abruptly ended.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

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

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 guess life goes on.

I will never give up.
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 mother

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her birds

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

Her medication

Her sanity

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

Jeju-mal

Camera work

How to operate an electric saw
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 fell into documentary filmmaking.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She started living with her niece.
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?
Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

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

A strange tickling sensation

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