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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 is Geoarcanicity?
(a) A city of wise geomesters.
(b) The activation of the Plutonic Engine.
(c) A kind of flavor that only tuners can taste.
(d) A sylanagistine city ordinance.

2. The Leadership families of Yumenes believed that the world was once ruled by whom or what?
(a) Guardians.
(b) Tuners.
(c) Orogenes.
(d) Stone eaters.

3. How does Nassun respond when Essun asks if she is alright?
(a) She says she is glad to see her mother.
(b) She says she is hungry and scared.
(c) She says she is doing great.
(d) She says her Guardian needs her.

4. Where does the onyx obelisk go after the conflict in Corepoint?
(a) It rests in the sea.
(b) It perches on Mount Everest.
(c) It floats in the sky.
(d) It goes into the Earth's Core.

5. Who watches over Nassun after she first settles in Corepoint?
(a) Essun.
(b) Stone eaters.
(c) Jija.
(d) Ykka.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Hoa tell Essun to be impressed with Nassun when he describes her attempt to activate the Gate?

2. What happened to the Guardians' bodies after Essun used them to reach the onyx obelisk?

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

4. What does Nassun say when Essun offers to help her take care of Schaffa?

5. What happened to the bodies of Rennies killed by the Obelisk Gate?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Essun say that the biggest problem with living in Rennanis is that “Castrima must live amid the corpses of its conquered” (278)?

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. What does Lerna notice about Essun once everyone is settled in Rennanis?

4. How does Steel explain Schaffa's longevity compared to other Guardians?

5. What did the tuners see when they visit the amethyst obelisk’s socket?

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

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

8. Why does Essun give Nassun control of the Obelisk Gate?

9. What does Hoa call it when Nassun uses magic and orogeny at the same time?

10. What hardships happen to the people of Castrima as they travel through the desert?

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