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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 begin to have nightmares?

2. At what interval do Inseon’s fingers have to be pricked?

3. From which airport does the narrator fly for Jeju?

4. What temperature does Inseon note is a tipping point?

5. Which of the following does the narrator recall hearing in the night?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is the narrator greeted by a Jeju shop owner?

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

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

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

8. How does the narrator lose her phone?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

Essay Topic 2

How reliable is the narrator of the novel? What in the text indicates that reliability, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Assuming that We Do Not Part should be standard reading for a given class and level, what class and what level? Why that class and why that level? What in the text suggests as much, and how does it do so?

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