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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 the narrator compare to burial mounds?

2. What color of apron does Inseon wear?

3. In what month did massacre befall the village where Inseon’s family lived?

4. Of what material is the box made in which the narrator buried Ama?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why had the bodies of those massacred been exhumed?

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

6. Why does Inseon insist that her birds eat inside their cage?

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

8. Why had the narrator been at the National Library?

9. What does Inseon reveal about her home that makes the narrator uncomfortable?

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

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

Into what medium is We Do Not Part most apt for adaptation? What in the text tells you as much? How does it suggest that such an adaptation would work?

Essay Topic 3

Overall, what is the most important theme of We Do Not Part. What in the text indicates as much? How does it do so?

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