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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. What happens to the body of the man Ykka kills in "3: You, Imbalanced"?

2. What does Nassun fear will happen if she lets Steel take her to Corepoint?

3. Who are Nassun's companions on her journey from Found Moon?

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

5. Who does Hoa credit with destroying Syl Anagist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where is Hoa while he narrates the novel?

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

4. Why does Schaffa warn the orogenes from Found Moon to flee the next comm they visit if the Season ends?

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

6. Why is everyone in Castrima covered with ash during Chapter 1?

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

8. How does Schaffa describe the Shattering?

9. Why can the stone eaters track Nassun?

10. What happened to Essun’s arm before the beginning of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In their final confrontation, Essun enrages her daughter Nassun by hesitating to help her with the Obelisk Gate. This leads to their opposing attempts to activate it as well as Essun’s ultimate fate. Analyze Nassun’s struggle to forgive her mother and explain how this struggle shapes the novel’s climax. Why does Nassun struggle to forgive Essun? What does this lead both characters to do? What does Nassun ultimately decide? What does this suggest about her feelings towards her mother?

Essay Topic 2

Hoa is an observant character and has lived longer than the other viewpoint characters in the book. Analyze his descriptions of Syl Anagist from the Prologue. How do his descriptions suggest his feelings about Syl Anagist? How does he foreshadow the events of the novel? How could Hoa’s feelings influence our understanding of Syl Anagist?

Essay Topic 3

The tuners ultimately decide to end sylanagistine civilization in response to the atrocity of the briar patch. Argue whether this is a justifiable response, using citations from the text and your own reasoning. On what basis should we evaluate the tuners’ behavior? How responsible are they for the unforeseen effects of their plan?

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