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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 Release and Restore

We Do Not Bid Farewell

No Goodbye
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?
An ancestral memory

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

A future prediction

A past personal experience
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

A migraine

Abrupt anguish

Hope
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 bequeath her money to

Which organization to donate to

What to do about her apartment

Who to address the letter to
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 reach out to her estranged family.

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

Her human condition

Lovesickness

Historical atrocities
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester
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?
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

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

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

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

Bashful

Poised

Arrogant
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.

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

Why Inseon ran away.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I guess life goes on.

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

I will never give up.

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 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 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 documents

Her daughter's keys

Her medication

Her sanity
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?
Camera work

Poetry

Jeju-mal

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

Hatred

Horror

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

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She fell into documentary filmmaking.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?
Injuries from an old accident

Dementia

Starvation

Cancer
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.

Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

A strange tickling sensation

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