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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 keep on hand for her birds?

2. How sharp is the bend in long strokes of Inseon’s mother’s handwriting?

3. What name was *given to* the youngest sister of Inseon’s father?

4. Into what kind of flame had the narrator stuck her hand in elementary school?

5. With which of the following does Part II begin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

Essay Topic 3

Explicate the significance of the name of any one character in the text.

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