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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?
No Goodbye

We Do Not Bid Farewell

We Do Not Part

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 future prediction

A past personal experience

An ancestral memory
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To stop the flow of water

To recover the bones

To dive into the sea

To run
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
Hope

A migraine

Abrupt anguish

A bone-chilling awareness
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?
Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her students

Her son

Inseon
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 love for cherries.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

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 find a large-enough shovel.

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

Lovesickness

Her human condition

Chronic pain
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker

Mandarin harvester

Birdwatcher
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.

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?
Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

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
13 What is one reason the doctors recommend that Inseon follow through with the excruciating aftercare procedure?
If the nerves die, then Inseon will experience phantom pain.

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.

There is no way Inseon will be able to play instruments.
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?
The friendship abruptly ended.

They pair grew closer than ever.

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

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.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

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 will never give up.

I guess life goes on.
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 secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she already started
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?
Her birds

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her mother

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

Her sanity

Her medication

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?
Disappointment

Gratitude

Hatred

Horror
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?
She started living with her niece.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell into documentary filmmaking.
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?
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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