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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 Do Not Part

We Release and Restore

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

A future prediction

A dream informed by historical atrocities and personal trauma

A past personal experience
3 What is Kyungha's impulse when she notices the tide coming in?
To stop the flow of water

To dive into the sea

To recover the bones

To run
4 What grips Kyungha upon waking?
A bone-chilling awareness

Abrupt anguish

Hope

A migraine
5 Who did Kyungha not want to part ways with?
Her son

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

Her students

Inseon
6 What is Kyungha unsure about as she writes out her will and last requests?
Who to address the letter to

What to do about her apartment

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 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?
Her human condition

Lovesickness

Chronic pain

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

Birdwatcher

Construction worker

Mandarin harvester
11 Why is Inseon hospitalized?
She attempted to commit suicide.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She crashed her car.

She fell and hit her head at a construction site.
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

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

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?
Arrogant

Bashful

Poised

Brash
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?
Why Inseon ran away.

Why Inseon liked to peel mandarins.

Whether she could help take care of the budgies.

Whether Inseon would collaborate with Kyungha on a project to address her nightmare.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I will never give up.

I guess life goes on.

I'll carry on in any case.

I can't bear it, but I have to keep going.
18 What does Inseon say when Kyungha rescinds her desire to go through with their project?
That she secretly thought it was a foolish endeavor

That she would find someone else to work with

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 mother

Her birds

Her neighbors

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about
20 What does Kyungha leave behind upon Inseon's request that she depart immediately for Jeju?
Her medication

Her daughter's keys

Her sanity

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

Camera work

Poetry

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 fell into documentary filmmaking.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She started living with her niece.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?
Injuries from an old accident

Starvation

Cancer

Dementia
25 What alerted Inseon's mother to the danger her daughter was in?
Inseon's cousin

The hospital staff

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

A strange tickling sensation

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