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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. According to Hoa, why did Alabaster flee the Fulcrum?
(a) He ran away to become a stone eater.
(b) He ran away to become a node maintainer.
(c) His world could not function without slavery.
(d) He could not stand his family and friends.

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

3. Why is Nassun unimpressed when she looks down the hole in the earth from Corepoint?
(a) It has no monsters inside it.
(b) It is not very deep.
(c) It is not very dark.
(d) It feeds and shelters no one.

4. What happened to Gallat and the other Conductors on the Moon?
(a) They stayed on the Moon forever.
(b) They had corestones lodged in their brains, giving origin to the Guardians.
(c) They were incinerated.
(d) They became stone eaters.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hoa meets with Essun in Rennanis. What does he reveal about Alabaster's fate?

2. Where did Houwha grow up?

3. Where does Nassun chase Schaffa when he arises at Corepoint?

4. What were the black vines at the amethyst obelisk's socket called?

5. The Leadership families of Yumenes believed that the world was once ruled by whom or what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where did the tuners go on their trip to Site Zero?

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

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

4. How did the Sylanagistine feel towards the Niess?

5. What hardships happen to the people of Castrima as they travel through the desert?

6. What people are living in Corepoint when Nassun arrives?

7. What does Hoa reveal to Essun about Alabaster during their nighttime meeting in Rennanis?

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

9. How does Nassun respond when Essun hesitates to help her activate the obelisk gate?

10. As Danel and Essun eat dinner before entering the desert, Danel explains that she wants to travel with Essun to close the Rifting. Why does Danel want to come along?

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