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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. The comment that the strain of lapsing friendship was “separating them from their old lives like a sheet of ice over a lake” (95) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following does Jianzhu muse is the lot of the people of Yokoya?

3. Which of the following sobriquets attaches itself to Tagaka?

4. The comment that Aomi had “blundered into a predator with much larger fangs” (22) offers an example of which of the following?

5. Which of the following does Yun note Tagaka and her corsairs steal from the villages they raid?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hei-Ran react to Jianzhu’s report of events with Father Glowworm and after?

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

3. How do Yun and Kyoshi react to Father Glowworm’s assault?

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

5. What are the results of Kyoshi’s firebending test by Hei-Ran, and why are they significant?

6. What does Kelsang report to Kyoshi as his reason for suspecting she may be the Avatar?

7. In summary, what is DiMartino’s reaction to Yee’s work, as expressed in the foreword?

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

9. How does Kelsang report to Kyoshi that Yun was identified as the Avatar?

10. How is Father Glowworm described when he first appears?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Kyoshi muses that “It was a small comfort, but a comfort nonetheless, that made her feel like she was standing on firmer footing” that the Flying Opera Company fears Jianzhu (220). Why might it be a comfort? What in the novel suggests as much? How does it make the suggestion?

Essay Topic 2

Jianzhu muses that “There was no force in existence stronger than a child’s righteous fury at being robbed” (12). Does the novel bear out the assertion? How so or how not?

Essay Topic 3

Kyoshi muses that “Of course, in the Fire Nation the caravans arrived on time” (122). What implication does the comment have for the Fire Nation? Is it one the rest of the novel supports? How or how not?

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