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

3. Which of the following does Kyoshi accuse Kelsang of regarding her as being (91)?

4. Which of the following does Kyoshi report feeling as she expounds in verse at Jianzhu’s mansion?

5. Which of the following does Father Glowworm require from Yun and Kyoshi to determine which is the Avatar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What does Yun identify to Kyoshi as the likely political effect of him being revealed not to be the Avatar?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider Lao Ge’s assertion that “Mercy has higher price than most people think” (276). Does the novel as a whole support or reject that assertion? How does it do so?

Essay Topic 2

Kyoshi notes that “being spiritual simply meant acknowledging the power of forces you couldn’t see and coming to terms with the fact that you didn’t have control over every aspect of your life” (102). Does the novel as a whole bear out that definition? How or how not?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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