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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To what did the people raising Kelenli attribute her every failure?
(a) Her upbringing.
(b) Her heritage.
(c) Her peer influences.
(d) Her reading habits.

2. What does Nassun see fused with the Earth's core?
(a) Human faces.
(b) A giant statue.
(c) Sunken volcanoes.
(d) Sleeping Guardians.

3. Hoa meets with Essun in Rennanis. What does he reveal about Alabaster's fate?
(a) Alabaster lost his orogeny and became a farmer.
(b) Alabaster died.
(c) Alabaster was made into a node maintainer.
(d) Alabaster was turned into a stone eater.

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

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

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

7. What does Lerna notice about Essun when they arrive at Rennanis?
(a) She has cancer.
(b) She is pregnant.
(c) She is turning to stone faster than expected.
(d) Her arm is growing back.

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

9. Where does the onyx obelisk go after the conflict in Corepoint?
(a) It perches on Mount Everest.
(b) It goes into the Earth's Core.
(c) It rests in the sea.
(d) It floats in the sky.

10. What happened to Gaewha after Syl Anagist fell?
(a) She became the stone eater Antimony.
(b) She was lost in space.
(c) She turned into an obelisk.
(d) She died.

11. Whose diary does Nassun find at Corepoint?
(a) Alabaster's.
(b) Jija's.
(c) Essun's.
(d) Schaffa's.

12. Why is Essun unable to visit Alabaster?
(a) He is very mad at her.
(b) He needs time to heal from becoming a stone eater.
(c) He has a contagious illness.
(d) He is dead.

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

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

15. What happened to the people of Niess?
(a) They died in a mass famine.
(b) They traveled to a different continent.
(c) They were conquered and scattered by invaders from Syl Anagist.
(d) They became the ruling class of Syl Anagist.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Steel oppose Nassun's plan to make Schaffa a stone eater?

2. What do the people of Castrima do with the node maintainers they find at Rennanis?

3. What did Kelenli want to be?

4. What happened to the bodies of Rennies killed by the Obelisk Gate?

5. How did the Conductors describe the briar patch when the tuners were first created?

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