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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Nassun power the Station?

2. Where does Nassun plan to go after leaving Found Moon?

3. What did the Conductors try to do to help the tuners blend in during their field trip?

4. What is the name of the stone eater who plans to eat Nassun?

5. What does Nassun call Schaffa to shake him out of the stupor he enters after she powers the Station?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why must the orogenes be controlled, according to Schaffa?

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

3. Why does Nassun want to end the world?

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

5. Why can the stone eaters track Nassun?

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

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

8. What does Maxixe realize about Essun when they are reunited in the stone forest?

9. Why did Essun destroy the geode at Castrima?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the use of the term ‘rogga’ by different characters in the novel. What does the term connote generally? How can different speakers mean different things when they say it? How do orogenes differ in their use of the word?

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 1 concludes with an interview between an old woman and an unnamed scribe. Write an essay explaining the importance of the interviewee’s statement to the themes and events of the novel. What ‘cycle’ is the old woman talking about? Which of the protagonists best exemplifies her approach?

Essay Topic 3

Hoa suggests that he ‘wants’ to remember Kelenli as resembling Essun and likewise wants to remember Gallat as resembling Schaffa. What does this desire tell us about Hoa’s attitudes towards those characters? What similarities are there in the roles those characters play in his life?

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