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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. Which of the following sobriquets attaches itself to Tagaka?

2. Which of the following trades does Jianzhu ascribe to the people of Yokoya?

3. At which of the following times does Jianzhu notes that “spiritual activity is at its highest” (102)?

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 items does Kyoshi take with her when she flees Jianzhu’s mansion?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Jianzhu note to Yun Hei-Ran sacrifices to the service of the Avatar?

3. What reason does Kyoshi have for having given off earthbending training?

4. What reasons does Kelsang give to Kyoshi for having noted his suspicion that she is the Avatar to Yun and Rangi?

5. How does Kyoshi describe the aftermath of a Yokoya fireworks display?

6. What reason does Yun assume for Hei-Ran not berating him in front of Rangi?

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

8. How does Kelsang explain being able to retrieve the Avatar relics to Jianzhu?

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

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

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 2

Note the following passage:

"The full weight of what she was saying slammed down on her midsentence like a heavy gate. Her insides boiled with disgust at her own weakness.

She’d let herself laugh. She’d spoken Kelsang’s name out loud without cursing Jianzhu’s in the same breath. And worst of all, she’d forgotten Yun. It didn’t matter how long the lapse was. To release her grip on him, even for a second, was unforgivable." (164)

What attitude toward revenge does the passage 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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