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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ykka do with Maxixe's band of followers after the encounter at the stone forest?
(a) She puts their fate up to a vote.
(b) She allows them to join Castrima.
(c) She tells them to get lost.
(d) She leads them into a deadly trap.

2. What happened to most of the buildings that should have been contained within the deadciv?
(a) They were melted into slag.
(b) They burned down.
(c) They crumbled to dust.
(d) They crushed into gravel.

3. How did Kelenli walk among the crowd of Syl Anagist?
(a) Carefully.
(b) Fearfully.
(c) Clumsily.
(d) With confidence.

4. How did the tuners prefer to communicate?
(a) Sign Language.
(b) Sylanagistine.
(c) Earth Talk.
(d) English.

5. Why is Schaffa unable to power the vehimal at the Station in Old Man's Pucker?
(a) He does not remember how.
(b) He resists the silver magic flowing through him from the Earth.
(c) Guardians are not allowed to operate vehimals.
(d) He is too weak to generate enough power.

6. What does Essun suggest they should do?
(a) Go around the stone forest.
(b) Tunnel under the stone forest.
(c) Go through the stone forest.
(d) Climb the stone forest.

7. What agreement do Danel and the other soldiers accept after one soldier defies Ykka?
(a) They will duel Ykka for their freedom.
(b) They will be released to survive on their own in the wastelands.
(c) They will work as members of the Strongback caste in exchange for their freedom.
(d) They may choose one representative to face execution while the others go free.

8. What happens to the body of the man Ykka kills in "3: You, Imbalanced"?
(a) It is cremated.
(b) It is buried.
(c) It is mummified.
(d) It is cannibalized.

9. Who does Hoa credit with destroying Syl Anagist?
(a) Himself.
(b) Essun.
(c) The vehimals.
(d) Nassun.

10. Who attacks the people of Castrima within the stone forest?
(a) Danel's soldiers.
(b) Found Moon's Guardians.
(c) Olemshyn's raiders.
(d) Maxixe's followers.

11. How has Maxixe changed since Essun last saw him at the Fulcrum?
(a) He has lost his orogeny.
(b) He has lost several body parts.
(c) He has turned into a stone eater.
(d) He has painfully handsome and impeccably groomed.

12. What did Kelenli do with the tuners before their journey?
(a) She took a picture of them in their disguises.
(b) She washed the makeup off their face.
(c) She explained how important it is to keep their disguises on while they travel.
(d) She put on a disguise just like theirs.

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

14. How does Essun get rid of her arm?
(a) She has Lerna heal it.
(b) She gets a prosthetic.
(c) She lets Hoa eat it.
(d) She shatters it with a sledgehammer.

15. Which comm is Essun traveling with for the first part of the novel?
(a) Rennanis.
(b) Castrima.
(c) Found Moon.
(d) Yumenes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hoa tell Essun that he is "safe" to love (172)?

2. What is unusual about the animals and plants in Old Man's Pucker?

3. Who narrates the novel?

4. What entity do Nassun and Essun realize is returning to Earth?

5. Why were the tuners disturbed by their first sight of a concrete building?

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