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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. 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) Shaping stone was sacreligious to them.
(c) They thought it looked unbearably ugly.
(d) They found the surface rough and painful to touch.

2. How does Nassun sometimes sooth Schaffa when Father Earth tortures him?
(a) She sings his favorite song.
(b) She feeds him some of her silver magic when he is not paying attention.
(c) She makes his favorite food.
(d) She tells him stories about good times she had with her mother.

3. Why were the tuners surprised by the Plutonic Engine in the museum?
(a) It had a seditious message hidden in its paint.
(b) It spoke to them.
(c) It was made for artistic purposes.
(d) It was made for war.

4. What does Ykka do with Maxixe's band of followers after the encounter at the stone forest?
(a) She tells them to get lost.
(b) She allows them to join Castrima.
(c) She leads them into a deadly trap.
(d) She puts their fate up to a vote.

5. Who made the stone forest?
(a) Maxixe.
(b) Alabaster.
(c) Olemshyn.
(d) Crack.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does Hoa compare his dwelling in the land where he was created?

2. From where is Hoa narrating the novel?

3. What did Essun do before the beginning of the novel to upset the head woman of Castrima?

4. Who controls the contaminated Guardians that attack Nassun at Found Moon?

5. Who is the one person that Nassun says she would regret destroying with the Obelisk Gate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Essun destroy the geode at Castrima?

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

3. What do the Conductors want Kelenli to help the tuners with?

4. Why can the stone eaters track Nassun?

5. What’s unusual about the building Kelenli leads the tuners to during their first lesson?

6. Who does Ykka take Essun to see after Essun first wakes up from her coma?

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

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

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

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

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