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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. To which of the following was Inseon’s father sent?
2. How old was Inseon’s father when the massacre happened?
3. Where did Inseon live when she reports having begun to feel another presence in her home?
4. Which of the following does the narrator posit Inseon consulted?
5. The novel implies the term “dosirak” means which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. How was Inseon able to tell where homes had stood in the abandoned village she searches?
2. Why had Inseon’s aunt told her mother that their brother would have survived the massacre?
3. Why had Inseon’s father’s family been killed?
4. Why had the bodies of those massacred been exhumed?
5. Why does Inseon think her uncle died in a mine?
6. In what year does the main narrative of the novel occur, and how can this be ascertained?
7. How did Inseon’s father evade massacre?
8. What does Inseon reveal about her home that makes the narrator uncomfortable?
9. What is the narrator doing when she hears Ama sing, to her surprise?
10. Why does Inseon insist that her birds eat inside their cage?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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?
Essay Topic 2
The novel focuses much attention on the interring of Ama. What is achieved by that focus? How is it achieved?
Essay Topic 3
In the novel, some characters are given but one name, while others are given first- and surnames, and still others are accorded names and titles. What significance, if any, accrues to patterns of naming in the novel? If no significance accrues, what purpose might be served by the patterns of naming in the novel? How does We Do Not Part bear as much out?
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