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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What disturbs Nassun about the Moon?
(a) It is blood red.
(b) It has a face.
(c) It has a city on it.
(d) There is a hole in it.

2. What power does Nassun use to summon an obsidian wall between herself and Essun?
(a) Orogeny.
(b) Stone knapping.
(c) Tuning.
(d) Magic.

3. What is wrong with the wall around the city of Rennanis?
(a) It is easy to climb.
(b) It is flammable.
(c) It has fallen to pieces.
(d) It is too large for the people of Castrima to guard.

4. What did Houwha believe was Gallat's reason for leaving Kelenli out of the Plutonic Engine?
(a) He was worried she would upstage him.
(b) He was worried she would sabotage the project.
(c) He wanted her to be able to see the engine fire up.
(d) He did not want her lumped in with the tuners.

5. What is the food situation when Castrima first arrives in Rennanis?
(a) There is enough for half the comm to survive.
(b) There is more than the people of Castrima will ever need.
(c) There is barely enough to survive for a Season.
(d) There is none at all.

6. What does Nassun see Essun do for the first time at the end of their conflict in Corepoint?
(a) Essun smiles at her.
(b) Essun uses orogeny.
(c) Essun strikes her.
(d) Essun shouts at her.

7. Why does Steel oppose Nassun's plan to make Schaffa a stone eater?
(a) Schaffa will feel lonely forever.
(b) Turning Schaffa into a stone eater will turn Nassun to stone.
(c) Schaffa is dangerous and needs to die for everyone else's safety.
(d) Schaffa is obnoxious and Steel does not want him around.

8. What happened to Kelenli after Syl Anagist fell?
(a) She and Hoa lived peacefully on an island together.
(b) She had orogene children and trained new Lorists.
(c) She became the new president of Syl Anagist.
(d) She and Gallat reconciled and moved in together.

9. What does Hoa say will happen if the Moon was returned to the sky?
(a) Humanity can negotiate a truce with the Earth.
(b) Syl Anagist will rise again and all its old technology will work.
(c) The night sky will be more romantic.
(d) The Earth will finally finish the Burndown order.

10. Where did Gallat take the tuners for their third lesson?
(a) The amethyst obelisk's socket.
(b) Another museum.
(c) A sylanagistine school.
(d) A new kind of vehimal.

11. How would Ykka know whether or not Essun's mission to Corepoint was a success?
(a) The Rifting would go cold.
(b) The ash would immediately clear from the sky.
(c) The stone eaters would all become humans again.
(d) The Earth would rumble, "thank you."

12. What is the source of the beam of silver magic that the vehimal passes through on its way to Corepoint?
(a) The onyx obelisk.
(b) The Earth's core.
(c) The vehimal itself.
(d) The moonstone obelisk.

13. What did Alma tell Yaetr Innovator Dibars in her reply to his letters?
(a) She was in love with him.
(b) She hated him and always had.
(c) He had been made a tenured professor.
(d) His funding was cut and he needed to return to the University.

14. Why does Nassun hesitate while commanding the Obelisk Gate?
(a) She wonders if Schaffa will enjoy being immortal.
(b) She wonders if it is still possible to save Schaffa's life.
(c) She wonders if killing might be wrong.
(d) She wonders if someone other than Schaffa might care about her.

15. What route will Castrima take to cross the desert?
(a) A winding creek.
(b) An abandoned set of traintracks.
(c) Crumbling high roads.
(d) An old subway tunnel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must the people of Castrima cross the desert as quickly as possible?

2. Who can understand the language first spoken by the vehimal that Nassun and Schaffa take to Corepoint?

3. How did Alabaster make his spare key when he opened the Rifting?

4. Why does Hoa tell Essun to be impressed with Nassun when he describes her attempt to activate the Gate?

5. Where did Houwha grow up?

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