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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. What is the name of Inseon’s mother?

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

3. With which of the following had Inseon’s father been diagnosed?

4. Which of the following is the first the narrator serves Ama after waking at Inseon’s house?

5. What kind of pot does Inseon’s father note burst?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had Inseon’s aunt told her mother that their brother would have survived the massacre?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

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

Consider the ending of the novel. Does it satisfy? How or how not?

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