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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 Release and Restore

We Do Not Part

We Do Not Bid Farewell

No Goodbye
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?
A past personal experience

A future prediction

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

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?
A migraine

Hope

A bone-chilling awareness

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

Her students

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Inseon
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Who to bequeath her money to

What to do about her apartment

Which organization to donate to

Who to address the letter to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
Her love for cherries.

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

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 reach out to her estranged family.

She has to find a large-enough shovel.

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.
Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker
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

Prick her finger sutures every three minutes with a needle to keep the nerves alive

Rush Inseon back into surgery

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

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

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

Inseon will have to chop the rest of her fingers to maintain balance.
14 Which best describes Kyungha's impression of Inseon?
Arrogant

Bashful

Brash

Poised
15 What happened between Inseon and Kyungha when Inseon's mother began to decline?
They pair grew closer than ever.

The friendship abruptly ended.

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 she could help take care of the budgies.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

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 will never give up.

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

I guess life goes on.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she would find someone else to work with

That she already started

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 mother

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her neighbors

Her birds
20 What does Kyungha leave behind upon Inseon's request that she depart immediately for Jeju?
Her sanity

Her daughter's keys

Her medication

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

How to operate an electric saw

Camera work

Jeju-mal
22 What feeling overpowered Inseon when she was in high school?
Disappointment

Horror

Gratitude

Hatred
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?
Dementia

Injuries from an old accident

Starvation

Cancer
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?
A strange tickling sensation

Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

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

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