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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 Bid Farewell

We Do Not Part

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 recover the bones

To stop the flow of water

To run

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

A migraine

A bone-chilling awareness

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

Inseon

Her daughter and maybe the rest of her family

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

Who to bequeath her money to

What to do about her apartment

Which organization to donate to
7 What ultimately rouses Kyungha out of her mire?
Her need to learn about the Jeju Massacre.

Her love for cherries.

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 find a large-enough shovel.

She has to keep watching the incoming tide.

She has to reach out to her estranged family.

She has to turn her back on the bones if she wants to survive.
9 Which of the following does Kyungha not struggle with?
Historical atrocities

Chronic pain

Lovesickness

Her human condition
10 Describe Inseon's career.
Documentary filmmaker turned carpenter

Birdwatcher

Construction worker

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

She crashed her car.

She sliced her fingers off in a woodworking accident.

She attempted to commit suicide.
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

Smooth salve over the sutures to encourage scars to form

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?
Arrogant

Poised

Brash

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

Inseon grew more distant.

Though they fought like sisters, they stayed by each other's side.

The friendship abruptly ended.
16 What question did Kyungha ask Inseon years back?
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.

Why Inseon ran away.
17 Which of the following phrases does Inseon often say?
I guess life goes on.

I will never give up.

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 already started

That she never wanted to do it in the first place

That she would find someone else to work with
19 Who did Inseon think of when she briefly regained consciousness in the truck after her accident and experience terrible pain?
Her neighbors

The victims of historical atrocities that Kyungha writes about

Her mother

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

Her documents

Her daughter's keys

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

Jeju-mal

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 into documentary filmmaking.

She fell at a construction site and got a concussion.

She started living with her niece.

She got a waitressing job and met her first boyfriend.
24 What caused Inseon's mother's decline?
Starvation

Injuries from an old accident

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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