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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

We Do Not Bid Farewell

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

A past personal experience

An ancestral memory

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

To run

To stop the flow of water

To dive into the sea
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
Abrupt anguish

A migraine

Hope

A bone-chilling awareness
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

Which organization to donate to

Who to address the letter to

What to do about her apartment
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

Her love for cherries.

The question of who will arrange her affairs after her death.
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 keep watching the incoming tide.

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

She has to find a large-enough shovel.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?
Her human condition

Chronic pain

Historical atrocities

Lovesickness
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Mandarin harvester

Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She crashed her car.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

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

Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

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

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.

If the nerves die, then Inseon will experience phantom pain.
14 Which best describes Kyungha's impression of Inseon?
Poised

Arrogant

Brash

Bashful
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.

The friendship abruptly ended.

Inseon grew more distant.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Whether Inseon would collaborate with Kyungha on a project to address her nightmare.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Why Inseon ran away.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I can't bear it, but I have to keep going.

I will never give up.

I'll carry on in any case.

I guess life goes on.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she already started

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 neighbors

Her birds

Her mother

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 sanity

Her documents

Her medication

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

Camera work

Jeju-mal

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

Hatred

Disappointment

Gratitude
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?
She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She fell into documentary filmmaking.

She started living with her niece.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?
Starvation

Injuries from an old accident

Cancer

Dementia
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?
The hospital staff

A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

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

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