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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the government organization overseeing the expedition?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The FBI.
(c) The Bureau of Extranormal Affairs.
(d) The Southern Reach.

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

3. Who does the narrator indicate will be the only other member of the expedition to last more than a day or two?
(a) Nobody will last more than a day or two.
(b) The surveyor.
(c) The anthropologist.
(d) The psychologist.

4. Why does the biologist think it would be good to talk to the psychologist before going back into the tower?
(a) She knows that they will need help extracting the body they found in the tower.
(b) She wants to seek revenge for the anthropologist as soon as she can.
(c) She wants to use the psychologist as bait to capture whatever is in the tower.
(d) The psychologist would have had a chance to see whatever creature killed the anthropologist.

5. What are shape are the tiny creatures inside of the tunnel?
(a) Hand shaped.
(b) Star shaped.
(c) Heart shaped.
(d) Circular in shape.

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

7. Which member of the expedition has had the most weapons training?
(a) The surveyor.
(b) The anthropologist.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The biologist.

8. Which member of the expedition does the narrator get along with better than she expected?
(a) The anthropologist.
(b) The linguist.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The surveyor.

9. What does the narrator do when she realizes she has been contaminated by the organism growing on the walls underground?
(a) She confesses right away.
(b) She purposefully contaminates the others.
(c) She tries to hide it but is caught almost immediately.
(d) She hides it from the others.

10. What is the purpose of the black device the members of the expedition wear?
(a) The device powers their cellphones.
(b) The device warns them when they are in an unsafe area.
(c) The device helps them leave the area every night.
(d) The device has no stated purpose.

11. What did the killer do that made them responsible for the death of the corpse discovered in 02: Integration?
(a) She covered the anthropologist with boar bait, causing it to eat her.
(b) She hypnotized the anthropologist into taking a sample of a deadly creature.
(c) She shot the linguist through the forehead.
(d) She threw a grenade into the tower.

12. What makes the expedition team laugh over dinner in 01: Initiation?
(a) The psychologist spills soup on herself.
(b) The surveyor tells them all dirty jokes.
(c) They watch a group of ducks on the pond.
(d) When the anthropologists says, "I wish I knew what you were thinking," and the biologist responds, "no you don't" (31).

13. What personal connection does the biologist reveal about herself and Area X in 02: Integration?
(a) Her favorite spot in her childhood was actually a piece of Area X.
(b) Her parents were both born in Area X.
(c) Her husband went on the eleventh expedition to Area X.
(d) Area X was named after her grandpa, Cornelius X.

14. How does the surveyor respond when the biologist asks whether she will wait at base camp?
(a) The surveyor confirms that she's going to the extraction point immediately.
(b) The surveyor insists that she'll stay behind, no matter what.
(c) The surveyor curses at her.
(d) The surveyor swears to beat her to the lighthouse.

15. What do the surveyor and the biologist discover when they return to base camp after their second trip into the tower?
(a) The psychologist has left, taking the supplies with her.
(b) The base camp has been burnt to the ground.
(c) The tower has expanded to swallow the base camp.
(d) The boar is there, waiting for them.

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses the surveyor about the gear that the expedition was given?

2. What do the surveyor and biolgist notice about the words in the tunnel in 02: Integration?

3. What important feature of the terrain is missing from the expedition's maps?

4. At what time of day does a low, powerful moan always sound in the area that the expedition explores?

5. What did every member of the prior expedition include in their drawings and notes about the area?

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