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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

We Release and Restore

No Goodbye

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

A past personal experience

An ancestral memory

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

A future prediction
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?

To dive into the sea

To recover the bones

To stop the flow of water

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 students

Her son

Inseon

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?

What to do about her apartment

Who to address the letter to

Which organization to donate to

Who to bequeath her money to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?

Her love for cherries.

Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

The question of who will arrange her affairs after her death.

Her desire to save Inseon's birds.
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?

Chronic pain

Historical atrocities

Lovesickness

Her human condition
10 Describe Inseon's career.

Construction worker

Birdwatcher

Mandarin harvester

Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?

She attempted to commit suicide.

She crashed her car.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.
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

Guide Inseon through physical therapy for her fingers

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

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.

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

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

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

Bashful

Poised

Arrogant

Brash
15 What happened between Inseon and Kyungha when Inseon's mother began to decline?

Inseon grew more distant.

They pair grew closer than ever.

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?

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

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

Why Inseon ran away.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?

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

I guess life goes on.

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 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?

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her mother

Her birds

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

Her medication

Her documents

Her sanity

Her daughter's keys
21 What did Kyungha ask Inseon to teach her years prior?

How to operate an electric saw

Camera work

Poetry

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

Disappointment

Gratitude

Horror

Hatred
23 What happened to Inseon during her brief stay in Seoul?

She fell into documentary filmmaking.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She started living with her niece.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.
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

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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