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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what season does the narrator take an apartment?

2. What kind of tree does the narrator note stands at the bus stop nearest Inseon’s home?

3. Which of the following had the narrator found under the mattress when staying at Inseon’s home?

4. On which of the following does Inseon note thirty thousand were killed?

5. To which of the following does the narrator compare death?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator push for an early publication date?

2. In what capacity had Inseon and the narrator met?

3. Why is the narrator forced to go without air conditioning?

4. How does Inseon receive funding to produce her documentary on Manchurian independence fighters?

5. Why does Inseon note birds are fragile?

6. Why do Inseon’s fingers have to be re-injured repeatedly?

7. Why had the narrator not considered having Inseon as the executrix of her will?

8. What forces the narrator to leave her bed?

9. Per the narrator, why is Inseon at ease around elderly women?

10. What was the narrator’s writing pattern when she was writing about the massacre?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of We Do Not Part? By which groups? Why?

Essay Topic 3

To what other writer’s work in your experience does Kang’s seem most similar? What makes the writers similar? What differentiates them? Overall, which do you regard as doing better at the craft of writing, and why?

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