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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Gallat take the tuners for their third lesson?
(a) The amethyst obelisk's socket.
(b) A sylanagistine school.
(c) Another museum.
(d) A new kind of vehimal.

2. Where was the test bore at the Zero Site taken from?
(a) A wall of volcanic glass.
(b) The Earth's core.
(c) The onyx obelisk.
(d) The moonstone.

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

4. What kind of precipitation must the people of Castrima endure?
(a) Hail.
(b) Freezing Rain.
(c) Acid Rain.
(d) Snow.

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

6. Why does Essun need to get to Corepoint shortly after arriving in Rennanis?
(a) She is not ready to stop traveling.
(b) She is turning into stone.
(c) The Moon will be closest to the Earth and easiest to pull back into place.
(d) She is getting impatient.

7. What is wrong with the wall around the city of Rennanis?
(a) It is easy to climb.
(b) It is too large for the people of Castrima to guard.
(c) It has fallen to pieces.
(d) It is flammable.

8. Who is lost on Essun's trip to Corepoint?
(a) Lerna.
(b) Tonkee.
(c) Hjarka.
(d) Danel.

9. Why did Yaetr Innovator Dibars say he was concerned after he analyzes his findings on orogenes and the frequency of Seasons?
(a) He is weary of traveling.
(b) His research is being ignored.
(c) He cannot find any good research subjects.
(d) He is afraid of talking to orogenes.

10. Why did Houwha no longer find his garden beautiful once he returned from the field trip in Syl Anagist?
(a) The light from the amethyst had messed up his eyes.
(b) He learned that everything he saw was powered by suffering from the briar patch.
(c) Conductors had sprayed herbicide on all of his favorite plants.
(d) The amethyst had started to give off a terrible green light.

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

12. Why is Nassun unable to use orogeny after the events of the last chapter?
(a) She will turn to stone.
(b) She will accidentally raise the obelisks again.
(c) She will turn the people around her into orogenes.
(d) Orogeny does not work now that the obelisks are gone.

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

14. What did the Niess have to do with the tuners?
(a) The Niess tried to destroy the tuners.
(b) The tuners were created by the Niess.
(c) Tuners were created based on Sylanagistine myths about the sessapinae of the Niess.
(d) The tuners were used to conquer the Niess.

15. Why does Nassun give Schaffa water and broth?
(a) Steel tells her she should give him some.
(b) She does not want him to be uncomfortable once she is turned to stone and can no longer take care of him.
(c) He asks for some.
(d) She wants to use up the last of the supplies.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Kelenli after Syl Anagist fell?

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

3. What did Kelenli want to be?

4. Who is the last Guardian to die?

5. Why must the people of Castrima cross the desert as quickly as possible?

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