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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. The bus the narrator rides passes amid what kind of tree?

2. How many beds are in Inseon’s hospital room?

3. How many hours long a flight is it from Seoul to Jeju?

4. What level of schooling had the narrator’s daughter started?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator realize she is not dreaming being outside in the snow?

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

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

4. How does the narrator attempt to address the heat in her apartment?

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

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

7. What kind of furniture does Inseon sell?

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

9. What forces the narrator to leave her bed?

10. Why does the narrator question whether she actually sees reserve forces trainees out in the early morning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Noted are multiple translators for the novel. Is it possible to ascertain where one translator or another has worked on the text? If so, what details make it possible to do so, and how? If not, how might such an alignment between the translators have been achieved, and what in the text exemplifies that such was the case?

Essay Topic 2

Sources attest to the presence of We Do Not Part on best-seller lists. Assuming that sales figures reflect popularity, what accounts for the popularity of the novel? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Into what medium is We Do Not Part most apt for adaptation? What in the text tells you as much? How does it suggest that such an adaptation would work?

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