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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 year does the narrator’s insomnia worsen?

2. The narrator sees a business selling which of the following shuttered on Jeju?

3. How many years before the beginning of the novel had Inseon’s mother died?

4. To which of the following does the narrator compare herself?

5. Where does the narrator note a reserve forces training area is located?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the narrator note is needed for snowflakes to form?

3. How had the narrator tried to write while supporting her family?

4. What mistake does Inseon report making in her workshop?

5. What saying does Inseon note about appetite and life?

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

7. How does the narrator report Inseon adapts to humid weather?

8. Why had the narrator not considered Jeju as a site for the artistic project she discussed with Inseon?

9. How are snowflakes affected by their falling rate in the novel?

10. Into what routine does the narrator settle before being summoned by Inseon?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

The novel focuses much attention on the interring of Ama. What is achieved by that focus? How is it achieved?

Essay Topic 3

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in We Do Not Part? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

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