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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 Bid Farewell

No Goodbye

We Release and Restore

We Do Not Part
2 Which best describes the circumstances of the novel's opening scene?
A future prediction

A past personal experience

An ancestral memory

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To run

To recover the bones

To stop the flow of water

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

Abrupt anguish

A migraine

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

Inseon

Her son
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Which organization to donate to

Who to bequeath her money 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 love for cherries.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.
8 What does Kyungha realize in the context of her nightmare?
She has to keep watching the incoming tide.

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

Her human condition

Chronic pain

Lovesickness
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Mandarin harvester

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Construction worker

Birdwatcher
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She attempted to commit suicide.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.
12 What does Kyungha witness the carers do to Inseon?
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

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 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.
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?
They pair grew closer than ever.

The friendship abruptly ended.

Inseon grew more distant.

Though they fought like sisters, they stayed by each other's side.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
Why Inseon ran away.

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.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I'll carry on in any case.

I guess life goes on.

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

I will never give up.
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 secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she would find someone else to work with

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 documents

Her medication

Her daughter's keys

Her sanity
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?
Jeju-mal

Poetry

How to operate an electric saw

Camera work
22 What feeling overpowered Inseon when she was in high school?
Gratitude

Disappointment

Horror

Hatred
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?
Dementia

Cancer

Injuries from an old accident

Starvation
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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