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

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

3. What geographical feature does Essun help Ykka navigate after she awakes from a coma?
(a) A caldera.
(b) A stone forest.
(c) A volcano.
(d) The Rifting.

4. What did Essun do before the beginning of the novel to upset the head woman of Castrima?
(a) She destroyed the geode that powered Castrima.
(b) She tried to assassinate the head woman.
(c) She failed to stop the soldiers from Rennanis.
(d) She insulted the head woman in public.

5. Why does Hoa tell Essun that he is "safe" to love (172)?
(a) He is kind.
(b) He is immortal and will never die.
(c) He cannot have children.
(d) He is non-violent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where are the deadciv ruins containing the Station located?

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

3. Who is waiting for Nassun and Schaffa at the bottom of the deadciv ruins in Old Man's Pucker?

4. Where does Hoa take Essun after revealing that a stone eater wants to eat Nassun?

5. How does the handyman at Found Moon describe Schaffa's treatment of Nassun?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the Conductors want Kelenli to help the tuners with?

2. Why can the stone eaters track Nassun?

3. What causes the Guardians Umber and Nida to attack Nassun?

4. Why does Nassun want to end the world?

5. What's unusual about the miniature Plutonic Engine that Kelenli shows the tuners during their first lesson?

6. Why is everyone in Castrima covered with ash during Chapter 1?

7. What does Essun realize about her relationship with Hoa after he shows her Jija's body?

8. How does Nassun convince Schaffa to let her protect him after she summons the vehimal at the station?

9. What happened to Nassun’s father before the beginning of the novel?

10. Why does Schaffa warn the orogenes from Found Moon to flee the next comm they visit if the Season ends?

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