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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What peculiarity does the biologist perceive about the Tower as she stands in the lighthouse, before determining that it is not worth considering?
(a) The Tower appears to be made from flesh from afar.
(b) The Tower is surrounded by angry boars.
(c) The Tower seems to glow.
(d) The only road to the Tower doesn't match the path she took.

2. When did the first expedition go into Area X?
(a) 2 months after the Event.
(b) Three years years after the Event.
(c) 2 years after the Event.
(d) 4 years after the Event.

3. To where is the biologist headed at the beginning of 03: Immolation?
(a) She is returning to basecamp.
(b) She is headed back to the tower.
(c) She is headed to the extraction point.
(d) She is headed to the lighthouse.

4. What creature does the biologist encounter on her way back to basecamp in 04: Immersion?
(a) The creature responsible for the moaning sound.
(b) The boar.
(c) The Crawler.
(d) The dolphin with human eyes.

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

6. What does the biologist find when she reads the surveyor's journal?
(a) It has only one entry, a cryptic reference to the anthropologist's return from the Tower.
(b) It is mostly filled with surveying notes.
(c) The surveyor had written all of her entries as haiku.
(d) It is filled with hateful yet admittedly accurate commentary of the surveyor's companions.

7. What does the biologist see in the canal in 03: Immolation?
(a) A whale.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) A giant school of fish.
(d) A boat.

8. Why does the biologist throw a rock at the lighthouse?
(a) She wants to test her throwing strength.
(b) She wants to draw out anyone who is hiding down there.
(c) She thinks she sees the Crawler and decides to kill it.
(d) She is attempting to test her own hearing.

9. What does the biologist discover on the piece of paper tucked into the psychologist's pants pocket?
(a) A list of hypnotic commands.
(b) A photograph of the psychologist dressed for a roller derby.
(c) A personal letter written by the Crawler.
(d) A love note from the lighthouse keeper.

10. How did the biologist's husband's dreams of floating influence him?
(a) They cured his fear of heights.
(b) They induced a fear of heights.
(c) They made him want to go to Area X.
(d) They made him afraid of Area X.

11. What does the physiologist want to know about the surveyor in 04: Immersion?
(a) Where she is.
(b) If she got back across the border.
(c) If the biologist kill her.
(d) When she died.

12. What words keep standing out to the biologist in one particular journal?
(a) "This land is your land."
(b) "Annihilation."
(c) "I hope they save us."
(d) "repelling and attack."

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

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

15. Why does the biologist refuse to let the psychologist restore her memories?
(a) They are interrupted by the moaning beast.
(b) She decides she'd rather not know what's on the border.
(c) She does not want to be subject to hypnosis again.
(d) She does not want to be a bother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the psychologist's final request?

2. What does the surveyor accuse the biologist of?

3. What nickname did the biologist go by with her husband?

4. What does the psychologist say the biologist was doing as she walked to the lighthouse?

5. What is the final question the biologist asks the psychologist before she dies?

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