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

2. How do the Guardians feel when Essun draws the magic from their corestones?
(a) They sleep through it.
(b) They feel nauseous.
(c) It is pleasant.
(d) It is massively painful.

3. What does Nassun say when Essun offers to help her take care of Schaffa?
(a) She does not want anybody's help.
(b) She needs more vegetable broth for Schaffa.
(c) She needs help putting Schafffa's corestone back in.
(d) She needs to use the Obelisk Gate.

4. Where did Houwha grow up?
(a) Inside a fortress at Corepoint.
(b) Inside a lab in Syl Anagist.
(c) In the wilderness outside Syl Anagist.
(d) Nowhere, he was created fully-grown in a vat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did the people raising Kelenli attribute her every failure?

2. How does Nassun respond when Essun asks if she is alright?

3. How did the Earth commandeer the Obelisk Gate?

4. Why does Essun need to get to Corepoint shortly after arriving in Rennanis?

5. What route will Castrima take to cross the desert?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Essun give Nassun control of the Obelisk Gate?

2. How does Kelenli describe the relationship between the tuners and the Niess when she explains the history of the Niess to the tuners?

3. What does the Earth do after it agrees to peace with humanity?

4. What did the tuners see when they visit the amethyst obelisk’s socket?

5. What did the Earth intend to do during the activation of the Plutonic Engine?

6. What does Lerna notice about Essun once everyone is settled in Rennanis?

7. At the end of the novel, what does the stone eater reborn from Essun say she wants?

8. How does Steel explain Schaffa's longevity compared to other Guardians?

9. What was the testing bore that Houwha saw at Site Zero?

10. While walking with Gallat to the tuners' third lesson, Houwha realized that Gallat wanted Kelenli to do something. What was it?

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