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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. Kyoshi’s musing that “Jianzhu made the Earth Kingdom sound like different pieces of flesh stitched together to close a wound” (85) offers an example of which of the following?

2. With which of the following does Tagaka fill her lamps?

3. Which of the following items does Kyoshi take with her when she flees Jianzhu’s mansion?

4. Which of the following is the first to die in the violence between Tagaka and the Avatar’s party?

5. Which of the following items does Kyoshi take with her when she flees Jianzhu’s mansion?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the first lesson Jianzhu claims to have taught Yun as he purports to teach it to Kyoshi?

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

8. Explain the sarcasm in Jianzhu’s comment that Kelsang had “also claimed that the location enjoyed some auspicious wind currents, using the very solemn and holy method of licking his finger and holding it up in the air” (8).

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explicate Lao Ge’s comment that “Those who grow, live and die. The stagnant pool is immortal, while the clear flowing river dies an uncountable number of deaths” (257, italics in original).

Essay Topic 2

In his encounter with daofei in Hujiang (245-47), Jianzhu muses on honor among thieves. What does he assert is that honor? Is he correct in his assessment? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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