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We Do Not Part Quiz for Part I (Chapters 1-3)

By Isabella Ribeiro · Edited by James Cooper · Last reviewed April 21, 2025

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 dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

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

To stop the flow of water

To run

To recover the bones

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

A migraine

Hope

A bone-chilling awareness

Abrupt anguish
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her son

Her students

Inseon
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?

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 find a large-enough shovel.

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

Lovesickness

Historical atrocities

Chronic pain

Her human condition
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Mandarin harvester

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Birdwatcher

Construction worker
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?

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

Rush Inseon back into surgery
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?

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

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

Inseon will otherwise have to give up her career as a hand model.

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.

Inseon grew more distant.

The friendship abruptly ended.

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.

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

I'll carry on in any case.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?

That she already started

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she would find someone else to work with

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 birds

Her neighbors

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 daughter's keys

Her medication

Her sanity

Her documents
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?

Horror

Disappointment

Hatred

Gratitude
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

Dementia

Starvation
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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