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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following positions does Auntie Mui hold in Jianzhu’s mansion?
(a) Head of personal staff.
(b) Head of clerical staff.
(c) Head of cleaning staff.
(d) Head of kitchen staff.

2. Which of the following does Jianzhu give as a reason for taking Yun and Kyoshi aloft on Pengpeng without Kelsang?
(a) Kelsang disapproves of the trip.
(b) Kelsang needs more healing time.
(c) He can.
(d) Kelsang is gallivanting off elsewhere.

3. Which of the following is the first to die in the violence between Tagaka and the Avatar’s party?
(a) Hei-Ran.
(b) Jianzhu.
(c) Kelsang.
(d) Amak.

4. The comment that the elemental cycle is “an order as unchanging as the seasons” (9) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Metaphor.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Simile.

5. Which of the following items does Kyoshi have in her room at Jianzhu’s mansion?
(a) A carved cloak rack.
(b) A sharp sword.
(c) A heavy locked trunk.
(d) An ewer of water.

Short Answer Questions

1. As which of the following does the novel define the term “kowtow” (109)?

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

3. With which of the following virtues does Kelsang note Kyoshi is invested?

4. Which of the following does Jianzhu cite as a reason he wields influence in the Earth Kingdom?

5. Which of the following is among the toys Kelsang uses to test for the Avatar?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How is Jianzhu’s Yokoya mansion described?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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