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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hoa do with Essun?
(a) Puts her body on display.
(b) Buries her body.
(c) Turns her into a stone eater.
(d) Feeds her body to the other stone eaters.

2. What were the black vines at the amethyst obelisk's socket called?
(a) Sinklines.
(b) Drain cables.
(c) Needle threads.
(d) Life leeches.

3. Why did Yaetr Innovator Dibars say he was concerned after he analyzes his findings on orogenes and the frequency of Seasons?
(a) He is weary of traveling.
(b) He cannot find any good research subjects.
(c) He is afraid of talking to orogenes.
(d) His research is being ignored.

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

5. What happened to the Guardians' bodies after Essun used them to reach the onyx obelisk?
(a) They began to decay.
(b) They withered into dust.
(c) They turned to jewel.
(d) They burnt to a crisp.

6. Where does Nassun chase Schaffa when he arises at Corepoint?
(a) Back to the vehimal station.
(b) Into the tunnels of Warrant.
(c) Through the streets of Corepoint.
(d) Back to the apartment.

7. How did the tall woman offend Gallat at the Zero Site?
(a) She makes fun of his accent.
(b) She implies he and the tuners are of the same kind.
(c) She says his uniform is sloppy.
(d) She says the tuners are bad at their jobs.

8. Who can understand the language first spoken by the vehimal that Nassun and Schaffa take to Corepoint?
(a) Schaffa.
(b) Essun.
(c) Lerna.
(d) Nassun.

9. What do the people of Castrima do with the node maintainers they find at Rennanis?
(a) Shut them down.
(b) Keep them in place.
(c) Put them on over-time.
(d) Free them.

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

11. What happens to people who are too injured to keep up with the rest of Castrima?
(a) They are forced to keep marching.
(b) They are left behind.
(c) They are rolled on carts.
(d) They are carried by the others.

12. How did Alabaster make his spare key when he opened the Rifting?
(a) Drawing power directly from the Earth's core.
(b) Causing the moonstone to reflect the onyx obelisk.
(c) Networking the 27 fragments.
(d) Yoking together all the node maintainers nearby.

13. Why does Hoa tell Essun to be impressed with Nassun when he describes her attempt to activate the Gate?
(a) Her love is powerful enough to change the world.
(b) She did not cry once while Schaffa was suffering.
(c) She is a powerful orogene.
(d) She is very good at weaving.

14. Why is Essun unable to visit Alabaster?
(a) He is dead.
(b) He is very mad at her.
(c) He has a contagious illness.
(d) He needs time to heal from becoming a stone eater.

15. Why is Nassun unable to use orogeny after the events of the last chapter?
(a) She will turn to stone.
(b) She will accidentally raise the obelisks again.
(c) Orogeny does not work now that the obelisks are gone.
(d) She will turn the people around her into orogenes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to the people of Niess?

2. How did the Conductors describe the briar patch when the tuners were first created?

3. What did Houwha believe was Gallat's reason for leaving Kelenli out of the Plutonic Engine?

4. What route does the vehimal take from Old Man's Pucker?

5. How does Essun first anger Nassun at Corepoint?

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