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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Schaffa do with the orogenes he led from Found Moon?
(a) He trains them.
(b) He lets them travel with him and Nassun.
(c) He tells them to find a new comm and gives them advice for joining.
(d) He kills them.

2. What is the name of the stone eater who plans to eat Nassun?
(a) Gaewha.
(b) Grey Man.
(c) Hoa.
(d) Antimony.

3. Why were the tuners disturbed by their first sight of a concrete building?
(a) They were used to living in structures that are, themselves, alive.
(b) They thought it looked unbearably ugly.
(c) Shaping stone was sacreligious to them.
(d) They found the surface rough and painful to touch.

4. Yaetr Innovator Dibars described an orogene who turned partially to stone, just like Essun. What became of that orogene?
(a) He was recruited to join the Fulcrum.
(b) He was kidnapped by a stone eater.
(c) He was made ruler of his comm.
(d) He was executed by a mob.

5. What purpose does Schaffa give for taking the orogenes from Found Moon?
(a) Building a new house.
(b) A training exercise.
(c) Punishment.
(d) A reward.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which obelisk did the tuners live closest to in Syl Anagist?

3. How does Nassun power the Station?

4. Who narrates the novel?

5. What does Ykka do with the defiant soldier from Rennanis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened to Essun’s arm before the beginning of the novel?

2. What's unusual about the miniature Plutonic Engine that Kelenli shows the tuners during their first lesson?

3. Why does Ykka say she is mad at Essun when Essun first wakes up from her coma?

4. Why does Nassun want to end the world?

5. What will Grey Man do to Nassun after she has opened the Obelisk Gate?

6. Why does Schaffa warn the orogenes from Found Moon to flee the next comm they visit if the Season ends?

7. What happened to Nassun’s father before the beginning of the novel?

8. What causes the Guardians Umber and Nida to attack Nassun?

9. Why does Essun not want to stay with Castrima as they make the journey to Rennanis?

10. Why does Schaffa warn Nassun not to trust the obelisks?

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