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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where are the deadciv ruins containing the Station located?
(a) In an invisible dome above Old Man's Pucker.
(b) Outside the outtermost ring of the caldera.
(c) Amid the canopies of the forest's trees.
(d) Underneath Old Man's Pucker.

2. Why was the fake Fulcrum at Found Moon created?
(a) To turn orogenes into tuners.
(b) To find a cure for orogeny.
(c) To make a home for stone eaters.
(d) To find an orogene capable of opening the Obelisk Gate.

3. How do the people of Castrima contain the captive soldiers from Rennanis in the first two chapters of the novel?
(a) They exile all of the soldiers.
(b) They keep the soldiers in a jail.
(c) They have all of the soldiers executed.
(d) They confine them in wooden devices called prangers.

4. Yaetr Innovator Dibars described an orogene who turned partially to stone, just like Essun. What became of that orogene?
(a) He was made ruler of his comm.
(b) He was executed by a mob.
(c) He was kidnapped by a stone eater.
(d) He was recruited to join the Fulcrum.

5. From where is Hoa narrating the novel?
(a) The briar patch.
(b) Corepoint.
(c) The heart of a volcano.
(d) Yumenes.

6. What agreement do Danel and the other soldiers accept after one soldier defies Ykka?
(a) They may choose one representative to face execution while the others go free.
(b) They will duel Ykka for their freedom.
(c) They will be released to survive on their own in the wastelands.
(d) They will work as members of the Strongback caste in exchange for their freedom.

7. Which comm is Essun traveling with for the first part of the novel?
(a) Rennanis.
(b) Yumenes.
(c) Found Moon.
(d) Castrima.

8. What does Ykka do with Maxixe's band of followers after the encounter at the stone forest?
(a) She leads them into a deadly trap.
(b) She puts their fate up to a vote.
(c) She allows them to join Castrima.
(d) She tells them to get lost.

9. What is wrong with Essun's arm when she wakes up at the beginning of the novel?
(a) It has been burnt.
(b) It has been broken.
(c) It has been turned to stone.
(d) It has been chopped off.

10. What is the relationship between tuners and orogenes?
(a) Tuners are forebears of the orogenes.
(b) Tuners were created to hunt and destroy orogenes.
(c) Tuners and orogenes have nothing to do with each other.
(d) Tuners are descended from orogenes.

11. What reason did Kelenli give when the tuners asked why she laughed at people's fear of her?
(a) It disguised her deep-seated sadness.
(b) When people hate you for who you are, there is nothing else you can do to change their mind.
(c) She thought people only pretend to fear her as a joke.
(d) She was terrifying on purpose.

12. On the trip to the station, Schaffa gives Nassun a reason why he believes the orogenes need to be controlled. What was his reason?
(a) Orogenes are naturally inclined to be criminals.
(b) Orogeny makes you too mentally incompetent to make your own choices.
(c) They are inferior beings and need to be shown their place.
(d) The orogenes are so essential for humanity's survival that no risks can be taken.

13. Who is the Earth's lost child, for whose loss the Earth seeks vengeance?
(a) Humanity.
(b) The stone eaters.
(c) The orogenes.
(d) The Moon.

14. Why is Essun afraid to use her orogeny after she wakes up from her coma?
(a) She does not want the people of Castrima to know she is an orogene.
(b) The stone forest is so unstable that using any orogeny could cause a disaster.
(c) She may turn to stone if she uses it again.
(d) She wants to keep her other skills sharp.

15. What happened to most of the buildings that should have been contained within the deadciv?
(a) They crushed into gravel.
(b) They crumbled to dust.
(c) They burned down.
(d) They were melted into slag.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the black vines Nassun finds in the Station?

2. What does Nassun fear will happen if she lets Steel take her to Corepoint?

3. How do Nassun and Schaffa reach the bottom of the deadciv ruins inside Old Man Pucker?

4. How did Kelenli explain her proficiency with the onyx obelisk to the other tuners?

5. What did Kelenli do with the tuners before their journey?

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