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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 05: Dissolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the biologist characterize her husband's behavior upon his return from Area X?
(a) He seemed distant.
(b) He could not stop screaming.
(c) He would constantly describe the strange things he saw.
(d) He was extremely gregarious.

2. What was strange about the flock of birds that the biologist's husband saw traveling inland?
(a) The flock was made entirely of extinct bird species.
(b) None of the birds had coloration typical of their species.
(c) The flock seemed to change in size as he looked at it.
(d) The flock contained birds of many different types.

3. What was the gender composition of the 11th expedition?
(a) All female except for the biologist's husband.
(b) All female.
(c) Half male and half female.
(d) All male.

4. What does the first expedition report about Area X?
(a) Nothing out of the ordinary, just wild and untouched wilderness.
(b) All of the trees were burnt down.
(c) All of the wildlife had been killed by something.
(d) Alien lifeforms.

5. What happened to the members of the second expedition sent to explore the area that the narrator's expedition explores?
(a) They returned home safe and sound.
(b) They disappeared without a trace.
(c) They shot at each other.
(d) They committed suicide by gunshot.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what do the inhaled spores make the narrator immune?

2. What is carved into one of the tables in the lighthouse?

3. What do the black boxes measure, according to the psychologist?

4. What does the biologist see when she looks down from the top of the lighthouse balcony?

5. What name does the biologist give to the thing writing words on the walls of the tower?

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