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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 kind of floor does Inseon’s home have?

2. Which of the following does Inseon keep on hand for her birds?

3. What kind of tree stood in Inseon’s father’s village lot?

4. Which of Inseon’s mother’s fingers did she use to feed her sister?

5. What did Inseon’s father take with him into hiding?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does the novel suggest prompted the narrator to take her own apartment?

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

5. Why had Inseon’s father’s family been killed?

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

7. How did Inseon’s father evade massacre?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 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

Consider the treatment Inseon receives for her injury. Why might that treatment be preferred? What implications does it have for Inseon’s future?

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