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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 tree stood in Inseon’s father’s village lot?

2. Over which of the following had Inseon’s mother slept?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. To what does the narrator credit Inseon’s departure from filmmaking?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

To what genre other than historical fiction might We Do Not Part be considered to belong? What in the text supports that identification? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Conversely, given demonstrated efforts toward censorship in a number of countries, what would likely prompt bans of We Do Not Part? By which groups? Why?

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