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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. Which of the following does Inseon stock in her refrigerator?

2. Peels of what are in the pocket of Inseon’s coat?

3. Which of the following did the narrator and Inseon visit together for work?

4. With which of the following does Part II: Night end?

5. The novel implies the term “dosirak” means which of the following?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Inseon’s father evade massacre?

2. To what does the narrator credit Inseon’s departure from filmmaking?

3. Why does Inseon think her uncle died in a mine?

4. How did Inseon become aware of the massacre she investigated?

5. What is the common story the narrator and Inseon found in their investigations of mountain folklore?

6. What does the narrator eat as she feeds Ama?

7. What does the novel suggest prompted the narrator to take her own apartment?

8. To what does Inseon credit her young aunt’s return home while wounded?

9. Why does the narrator posit Inseon titles her project as she does?

10. How does Inseon light the stove in her workshop?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what genre other than historical fiction might We Do Not Part be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

The novel notably lacks an epigraph, something common in novels—and even in works of nonfiction. What effect does the lack of an epigraph have on the narration? How does the effect manifest?

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