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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. From which of the following on Kyoshi’s body does Father Glowworm take what it requires to determine who the Avatar is?

2. Which of the following is the name of Rangi’s father?

3. Which of the following items does Kyoshi have in her room at Jianzhu’s mansion?

4. Which of the following sobriquets attaches itself to Kelsang?

5. From which of the following on Yun’s body does Father Glowworm take what it requires to determine who the Avatar is?

Short Essay Questions

1. What “little fact about the pirate trade” (76) does Tagaka offer Yun?

2. How does Jianzhu understand the Air Nomad test for the Avatar to work?

3. What difference of intent exists in the fight between Kelsang and Jianzhu after the incident with Father Glowworm, and what is the result?

4. What reasons does Jianzhu give for identifying the Earth Kingdom as “kind of a mess” to Kyoshi (84)?

5. What is Kyoshi’s occupation on Jianzhu’s estate, and why does she have it?

6. How does Jianzhu define the Avatar State to Kyoshi?

7. What thoughts does Kyoshi ascribe to the servants at Jianzhu’s mansion after her evident promotion?

8. How is Jianzhu’s Yokoya mansion described?

9. What verbal amendment to the agreement with Tagaka does Yun insist upon?

10. What reasons are offered quietly by revered elders for the failure to identify the Avatar?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel notes that “The captain took a step back in astonishment. He’d interpreted [Kyoshi’s} unfurling to her full height as a hostile act. He wasn’t the first” (150). What attitude does the response indicate? Does the novel as a whole support that attitude? How or how not?

Essay Topic 2

After being prodded by Rangi regarding her childhood in Yokoya, mistreated by the villagers and their children, Kyoshi responds “What was I supposed to do, drop the mountain on them? Smack around a bunch of children half my size? Anything I did would have been completely disproportionate” (136). What attitude does the response indicate? Does the novel as a whole support that attitude? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Trace the implications of the following: “Jianzhu collapsed forward, his upper body slamming against the table. He couldn’t see Hei-Ran. But like the needle of a compass, his hand reached toward her as he blacked out” (309). What else in the novel supports the identified implications of the passage? How does it do so?

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