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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 month did massacre befall the village where Inseon’s family lived?

2. From which of the following was Inseon returning when she began to feel another presence in her home?

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

4. How old was Inseon’s father when the massacre happened?

5. What kind of desert does the narrator see stretch to the horizon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the narrator doing when she hears Ama sing, to her surprise?

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

3. What does the narrator know has happened to the leaves of the trees in her nightmares?

4. How was Inseon able to tell where homes had stood in the abandoned village she searches?

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

6. In what year does the main narrative of the novel occur, and how can this be ascertained?

7. How does Inseon posit Ami picked up words from her?

8. Why had Inseon’s aunt married by arrangement?

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

10. What does Inseon’s mother regret having said to her brother, and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the narrator's comment that she "couldn't tell what made the nightmares leave. I wasn't sure whether I had fought them off or whether they had crushed me at last and moved on" (137). Which of the two is it? Did the narrator win or lose to her nightmares? What in the novel says as much to you? How does the victory or defeat come across?

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

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?

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