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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. With which of the following does Part II begin?

2. Which of the following was noted on the feet of massacre victims?

3. What color turtleneck does Inseon wear?

4. Where did Inseon live when she reports having begun to feel another presence in her home?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How had Inseon’s father dealt with the tremoring in his hands?

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

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

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

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

Section divisions, their titles, and chapter numbering / division schema are all components of paratext. That is, they are not part of the text but are associated with it closely and affect its meaning. What significance, if any, accrues to the chapter-numbering scheme at work in We Do Not Part? If there is significance, how does that significance manifest? If there is not, what in the novel supports the paratextual divisions that are in place?

Essay Topic 2

To what extent does the novel as a whole enact a commentary on the act of writing, particularly of writing nonfiction? What in the text says indicates that commentary, and how does it do so?

Essay Topic 3

Similarly, the lengths of chapters influence reading. What pattern of chapter-length is present in the novel, if any? What effect does the length of chapters have on the reading? How is the effect achieved?

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