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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 happened to most of the buildings that should have been contained within the deadciv?
(a) They burned down.
(b) They were melted into slag.
(c) They crumbled to dust.
(d) They crushed into gravel.

2. What trait did Kelenli and the other turners share in common?
(a) They had poufy white hair.
(b) They had split tongues.
(c) They had enhanced sessapinae.
(d) They had albino skin.

3. Who is the Earth's lost child, for whose loss the Earth seeks vengeance?
(a) Humanity.
(b) The stone eaters.
(c) The orogenes.
(d) The Moon.

4. What does Essun suggest they should do?
(a) Go through the stone forest.
(b) Climb the stone forest.
(c) Tunnel under the stone forest.
(d) Go around the stone forest.

5. Why can Essun sense Nassun using magic and orogeny?
(a) Nassun has a powerful magnet.
(b) Nassun is Essun's daughter.
(c) Nassun is bound to the sapphire obelisk.
(d) Nassun is very nearby.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Kelenli walk among the crowd of Syl Anagist?

2. Where does Hoa take Essun after revealing that a stone eater wants to eat Nassun?

3. What entity do Nassun and Essun realize is returning to Earth?

4. How does the vehimal propel itself after Nassun summons it?

5. What does Ykka do with Maxixe's band of followers after the encounter at the stone forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Essun realize about the relationship between orogeny and magic when she encounters Maxixe in the stone forest?

2. How does Hoa describe magic in Syl Anagist: Four?

3. Where is Hoa while he narrates the novel?

4. What created the obsidian column at the heart of the dead civ in Old Man's Pucker?

5. When Kelenli first meets the other tuners, to what does she attribute her success in riding the onyx obelisk?

6. How does Nassun convince Schaffa to let her protect him after she summons the vehimal at the station?

7. Why does Hoa’s prison in Syl Anagist require no guards?

8. Essun begins Chapter 1 with a group of caretakers. Where are they from and where are they headed?

9. What does Hoa say is the relationship between tuners and orogenes?

10. When Schaffa and Nassun arrive at Old Man's Pucker, they camp outside the forest before heading in to look for the Station. Why?

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