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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What is The Wall?
(a) A particularly large soldier from Rennanis.
(b) A huge obsidian wall surrounding Rennanis.
(c) A broken ruin outside of Rennanis.
(d) A giant expanse of ash, fire, smoke and lightning.

4. Who watches over Nassun after she first settles in Corepoint?
(a) Stone eaters.
(b) Essun.
(c) Ykka.
(d) Jija.

5. Why does the Earth want vengeance against humanity?
(a) Humans mistreat the orogenes.
(b) Humans have stolen the Earth's life force.
(c) Humans are too noisy.
(d) Humans will not share their technology with him.

6. How did the Earth commandeer the Obelisk Gate?
(a) It took over the onyx obelisk.
(b) It made a spare key from 27 obelisks.
(c) It short-circuited the moonstone.
(d) It tortured the tuners into obeying its whims.

7. How many people survive the journey across the desert?
(a) 1100 out of 1100.
(b) 1000 out of 1100.
(c) 850 out of 1100.
(d) 15 out of 1100.

8. What would the Earth's Burndown order have accomplished if it succeeded?
(a) It would send humanity a warning.
(b) It would release the Earth's life force gently, so that Syl Anagist would have nothing to harvest.
(c) It would cause Syl Anagist's power grid to overload and deactivate.
(d) It would liquefy the planet's surface, ending all life.

9. How did the people of Syl Anagist treat the tuners during the tuners' field trip?
(a) They celebrated them.
(b) They harassed them.
(c) They ignored them.
(d) They asked them questions.

10. How does Nassun's spare key work?
(a) It networks 27 smaller obelisks to emulate the much larger onyx obelisk.
(b) It uses her own internal magic to mimic the onyx obelisk.
(c) It uses a majority of all the obelisks around the Earth to override the rest of the Gate.
(d) It turns the Earth's Core into a new onyx obelisk.

11. What did Houwha believe was Gallat's reason for leaving Kelenli out of the Plutonic Engine?
(a) He was worried she would upstage him.
(b) He did not want her lumped in with the tuners.
(c) He wanted her to be able to see the engine fire up.
(d) He was worried she would sabotage the project.

12. What is Geoarcanicity?
(a) A sylanagistine city ordinance.
(b) A kind of flavor that only tuners can taste.
(c) The activation of the Plutonic Engine.
(d) A city of wise geomesters.

13. What route does the vehimal take from Old Man's Pucker?
(a) It goes straight to the Moon.
(b) It crawls around the equator of the Earth.
(c) It crawls straight through the center of the Earth to the other side.
(d) It crawls along the bottom of the ocean.

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

15. What does the Earth do to mark its peace treaty with humanity?
(a) Writes a message on the moon.
(b) Releases the captive souls from its core.
(c) It lets out a celebratory volcanic eruption.
(d) Speaks to humanity in Earth-Speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Nassun hesitate while commanding the Obelisk Gate?

2. Who can understand the language first spoken by the vehimal that Nassun and Schaffa take to Corepoint?

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

4. What happens to Nassun that forces Essun to submit during their conflict at Corepoint?

5. With whom was Kelenli raised?

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