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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 were the black vines at the amethyst obelisk's socket called?
(a) Life leeches.
(b) Needle threads.
(c) Drain cables.
(d) Sinklines.

2. What happens when the people of Castrima reach the end of the desert?
(a) The soldiers betray the rest of the comm and hold a mutiny.
(b) The comm falls apart and chooses a new head woman.
(c) Everyone scatters to forage before reuniting at an abandoned farm.
(d) Essun leaves to find Nassun.

3. What does Nassun say when Essun offers to help her take care of Schaffa?
(a) She does not want anybody's help.
(b) She needs to use the Obelisk Gate.
(c) She needs help putting Schafffa's corestone back in.
(d) She needs more vegetable broth for Schaffa.

4. How does Nassun's spare key work?
(a) It networks 27 smaller obelisks to emulate the much larger onyx obelisk.
(b) It uses a majority of all the obelisks around the Earth to override the rest of the Gate.
(c) It turns the Earth's Core into a new onyx obelisk.
(d) It uses her own internal magic to mimic the onyx obelisk.

5. Why does Hoa tell Essun to be impressed with Nassun when he describes her attempt to activate the Gate?
(a) She is a powerful orogene.
(b) She is very good at weaving.
(c) Her love is powerful enough to change the world.
(d) She did not cry once while Schaffa was suffering.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many people survive the journey across the desert?

2. Why has Hoa been eating Essun's stone body parts?

3. What do most of the obelisks do after the Gate is used at Corepoint?

4. Why is Nassun unable to use orogeny after the events of the last chapter?

5. What is The Wall?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Schaffa narrating the story to Essun?

2. As Danel and Essun eat dinner before entering the desert, Danel explains that she wants to travel with Essun to close the Rifting. Why does Danel want to come along?

3. When Steel, Antimony and Hoa meet, what reasoning does Steel give for manipulating Nassun?

4. Where did the tuners go on their trip to Site Zero?

5. What did the Earth intend to do during the activation of the Plutonic Engine?

6. How does Kelenli describe the relationship between the tuners and the Niess when she explains the history of the Niess to the tuners?

7. What does Hoa reveal to Essun about Alabaster during their nighttime meeting in Rennanis?

8. What happens to the tuners on their way to Kelenli’s home during their second lesson?

9. Who interrupts Nassun as she attempts to activate the Obelisk Gate?

10. What does the Earth do after it agrees to peace with humanity?

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