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

2. What happened to Maxixe and Essun's friend Crack?

3. Which comm is Essun traveling with for the first part of the novel?

4. What is wrong with Essun's arm when she wakes up at the beginning of the novel?

5. Why is Essun afraid to use her orogeny after she wakes up from her coma?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Essun realize about the relationship between orogeny and magic when she encounters Maxixe in the stone forest?

2. When Kelenli first meets the other tuners, to what does she attribute her success in riding the onyx obelisk?

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

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

5. Where is Hoa while he narrates the novel?

6. When Schaffa and Nassun arrive at Old Man's Pucker, they camp outside the forest before heading in to look for the Station. Why?

7. Why does Nassun want to end the world?

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

9. What's unusual about the miniature Plutonic Engine that Kelenli shows the tuners during their first lesson?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay explaining the importance of fragmentation in the novel’s narrative structure. Why does Hoa shift so much between eras and points of view? How does the fragmentation of the narrative reflect the fragmentation between the characters? How does this fragmentation shape our understanding of the story?

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