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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. The comment that the strain of lapsing friendship was “separating them from their old lives like a sheet of ice over a lake” (95) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Simile.
(b) Analogy.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Metaphor.

2. The comment that Kyoshi “kept quiet and pretended that the three people who’d fallen in beside her like muggers in an alley weren’t a threat” (18) offers an example of which of the following?
(a) Conceit.
(b) Metaphor.
(c) Analogy.
(d) Simile.

3. 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 is gallivanting off elsewhere.
(c) He can.
(d) Kelsang needs more healing time.

4. Which of the following sobriquets attaches itself to Tagaka?
(a) Crimson Queen of the Southern Bay.
(b) Bloody Flail of the Eastern Sea.
(c) Scarlet Spear of the Sunset Ocean.
(d) Red Sword of the Final Morning.

5. How many years pass between Kuruk’s death and the beginning of the novel?
(a) 8.
(b) 9.
(c) 7.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Yun ascribe his resistance to Jianzhu’s machinations with Father Glowworm?

2. Which of the following materials is included in the testing object with which Hei-Ran presents Kyoshi?

3. As which of the following does Yun identify the purpose of many of the cures present where he finds Kyoshi after her firebending test?

4. To what destination does Yun note Tagaka is bound?

5. Which of the following questions does DiMartino report asking FC Yee in their first talks?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What verbal amendment to the agreement with Tagaka does Yun insist upon?

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

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

6. How does Jianzhu define the Avatar State to Kyoshi?

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

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

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

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