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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 phrase that “Kyoshi felt Rangi leap onto her back, clinging to her like a rucksack” (237) offers an example of which of the following?

2. Which of the following identities does Kyoshi determine belongs to Lao Ge?

3. Which of the following does Lek assert “The first rule of smuggling is” (232)?

4. The comment that Lao Ge “would declare the lowliest peasant is like the Avatar in this regard” (229) offers an example of which of the following?

5. Which of the following kinds of establishment is Madam Qiji’s?

Short Essay Questions

1. What gesture do the daofei Kyoshi meets at Madam Qiji’s use to introduce themselves?

2. What reason does Kyoshi give for concealing her heritage from Yokoya and Rangi?

3. What does Lao Ge assert that Te is doing with the rice he collects from the farmers in his province?

4. What does Kyoshi divine is meant by the phrase “Tieguai fights with a crutch” (159)?

5. What conditions does Kyoshi set on allowing Te to live?

6. What does Kyoshi regard as the time she was most tired?

7. What has been done to the farmer outside Te’s palace whom the Yellow Necks accost, and which enraged Kyoshi?

8. What reasons does Kyoshi give for refusing the offer of the Flying Opera Company to depart from her?

9. Why does Jianzhu note sympathy for Hei-Ran when they arrive at the Beifong estate?

10. What does Rangi note is the cause of her reservations about Kyoshi’s introduction to Madam Qiji’s?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The novel notes that “Another person might have swelled with happiness while looking back over the power they wielded. Jianzhu simply sounded tired” (86). What in the novel would account for the sound? How might it do so?

Essay Topic 2

At the end of “The Boy from Makapu,” Jianzhu assigns Yun a training exercise (33-34). What does the exercise reveal about their respective characters? How are the revelations put across?

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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