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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 publish a book about a massacre?

2. How heavy does Inseon posit each of her birds is?

3. In what month does the narrator submit her revised manuscript?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does Inseon note birds are fragile?

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

5. Why does the narrator think herself lucky in her trip to Inseon’s home?

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

7. Why would Inseon express a temperature in degrees Celsius?

8. Why does the narrator seek out a writing space away from her family?

9. How does the narrator attempt to stave off her condition while waiting with the elderly lady at the bus stop?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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

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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