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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the biologist find on the landing half-way up the lighthouse?
(a) She finds a pulsating orb of green-gold light.
(b) She finds inner peace.
(c) She finds a photograph of two men and a little girl with the lighthouse in the background.
(d) She finds the psychologist.

2. Which field assignment is Rock Bay for the biologist?
(a) Her first.
(b) Her tenth.
(c) Her fifth.
(d) Her third.

3. What does the biologist determine from the sheer quantity of the journals that she discovers in the lighthouse?
(a) Area X must induce hypergraphia in its travelers.
(b) She is a less dedicated writer than she realized.
(c) There have been more than 12 expeditions to Area X.
(d) Most of the journals must be empty or photocopied from other expeditions.

4. What is unique about the photograph the biologist finds in the lighthouse?
(a) It has a strange blob in the background that doesn't look human.
(b) It looks like it was from colonial times.
(c) The faces have been scratched out.
(d) The man in the picture has been circled by someone or something.

5. What does the biologist find when she investigates the back room at the lower level of the lighthouse?
(a) Signs of a creature that had been taken over by Area X.
(b) The psychologist.
(c) A featureless room.
(d) Upturned furniture, bullet holes and other signs of a massacre.

6. What is the final question the biologist asks the psychologist before she dies?
(a) Where you going to kill me?
(b) Why did you come here?
(c) Did you know about the journals?
(d) Did you know my husband?

7. How does the narrator describe the residents of Rock Bay?
(a) Ravingly bigoted.
(b) Naive but helpful.
(c) Taciturn.
(d) Gregarious.

8. What does the psychologist reveal about the first expedition?
(a) The Southern Reach used political prisoners.
(b) There is video footage of it.
(c) There never was a first expedition, they are the first expedition.
(d) The entire expedition died.

9. Aside from the anthropologists death, what makes the psychologist upset the morning at base camp in 04: Immersion?
(a) She noticed that the biologist was already changing.
(b) She was afraid that the Crawler would attack them.
(c) She was afraid that the Southern Reach would come after her for failing the mission.
(d) She knew she needed to kill the surveyor.

10. What does the biologist take samples of in the abandoned town in 03: Immolation?
(a) Dead animals, a fox and a rat.
(b) The water coming from the sink.
(c) Human remains.
(d) Her own saliva.

11. What time does the biologist reach the lighthouse in 03: Immolation?
(a) Noon.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) Midnight.

12. What is the worst thing the biologist finds on the lighthouse stairs?
(a) A dead body.
(b) A dying deer.
(c) A dilapidated toy rabbit.
(d) A human hand.

13. What did the psychologist write about the biologist?
(a) "Silence creates its own violence."
(b) "Her mind is porous."
(c) "Needs reinforcement."
(d) "Easily paralyzed."

14. What is one strange side effect that the members of the first expedition express?
(a) Extreme sexual desire.
(b) Extreme fear.
(c) Very vivid dreams.
(d) Extreme rage.

15. What line from a song keeps coming to the biologist?
(a) "You can't always get what you want."
(b) "Brown Eyed Girl."
(c) "All this useless knowledge."
(d) "Welcome to the Jungle."

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the room at the top of the lighthouse differ from the areas preceding it?

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

3. Finish this quote from one member of the first expedition: "I could do anything as long as I did not mind..."

4. Why does the biologist throw a rock at the lighthouse?

5. What does the surveyor accuse the biologist of?

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