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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Nassun hesitate while commanding the Obelisk Gate?
(a) She wonders if someone other than Schaffa might care about her.
(b) She wonders if Schaffa will enjoy being immortal.
(c) She wonders if killing might be wrong.
(d) She wonders if it is still possible to save Schaffa's life.

2. Who attacks Essun and the others as they go through the Earth with Hoa?
(a) Guardians.
(b) Tuners.
(c) Stone eaters.
(d) Orogenes.

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

4. How does Essun first anger Nassun at Corepoint?
(a) She calls her a dumb child.
(b) She makes an offensive joke.
(c) She mentions Jija.
(d) She attacks her physically.

5. How did the Conductors describe the briar patch when the tuners were first created?
(a) They said it was painful.
(b) They said it was unusual.
(c) They said it was sad.
(d) They said it was peaceful.

6. Where does Nassun sleep while in Corepoint?
(a) A tent.
(b) Inside one of the pylons.
(c) Out in the streets.
(d) An apartment.

7. What is the food situation when Castrima first arrives in Rennanis?
(a) There is more than the people of Castrima will ever need.
(b) There is barely enough to survive for a Season.
(c) There is none at all.
(d) There is enough for half the comm to survive.

8. What material helped the Earth in its plan to take over the Obelisk Gate?
(a) Wood.
(b) Water.
(c) Mud.
(d) Metal.

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

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

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

12. With whom was Kelenli raised?
(a) Nobody.
(b) Houwha.
(c) Gallat.
(d) Pheylen.

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 along the bottom of the ocean.
(d) It crawls straight through the center of the Earth to the other side.

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

15. What does Hoa say would have happened if the Plutonic Engine had been activated?
(a) It would run forever without any problems.
(b) It would get more and more powerful, eventually causing the Earth to explode.
(c) It would eventually use up all the Earth's life force.
(d) Everyone on Earth would be turned into stone eaters.

Short Answer Questions

1. What will happen once Schaffa's corestone has been removed?

2. What would the Earth's Burndown order have accomplished if it succeeded?

3. How did Gallat react when he saw the briar patch?

4. What is the source of the beam of silver magic that the vehimal passes through on its way to Corepoint?

5. What does Nassun see fused with the Earth's core?

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