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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the journals reveal about Area X?
(a) There were many more expeditions to Area X than 12.
(b) Area X was colonized by aliens.
(c) Area X is getting smaller.
(d) Area X is where the government is testing chemicals.

2. What is the psychologist's final request?
(a) For the biologist to find her wife and tell her the psychologist is sorry.
(b) To be cremated.
(c) To be left exactly where she dies.
(d) To be buried.

3. What did the surveyor do with most of the supplies at base camp?
(a) Organized them by category.
(b) Ruined them.
(c) Grouped them into rations for the individual expedition members.
(d) Used them to prepare a magnificent feast for her new best friend, the biologist.

4. Aside from the anthropologists death, what makes the psychologist upset the morning at base camp in 04: Immersion?
(a) She knew she needed to kill the surveyor.
(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 noticed that the biologist was already changing.

5. What is carved into one of the tables in the lighthouse?
(a) "Words. Words. Words."
(b) "R.S. was here."
(c) "This is all a dream."
(d) "Tell my family I love them."

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

7. What do the black boxes measure, according to the psychologist?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Fear.
(c) An energy unique to Area-X, dubbed "The X-Factor."
(d) Radiation.

8. Why does the biologist recognize the face she saw on the shed husk?
(a) It was the anthropologist.
(b) It was the psychologist from the eleventh expedition.
(c) It was the linguist.
(d) It was her husband.

9. What does the biologist do with the psychologist's gun and personal letter in 04: Immersion?
(a) She burns them.
(b) She throws them both away.
(c) She keeps them for herself.
(d) She uses them to make a fire.

10. 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) There have been more than 12 expeditions to Area X.
(c) Most of the journals must be empty or photocopied from other expeditions.
(d) Area X must induce hypergraphia in its travelers.

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

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

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

14. What first surprises the biologist when she arrives to the psychologist's position at the foot of the lighthouse?
(a) She is surprised that the psychologist is dead.
(b) She is surprised that the psychologist is alive.
(c) She is surprised that the psychologist is not happy to see her.
(d) She is surprised that she never saw the psychologist lying there before.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the psychologist describe the biologist's dad?

2. How long ago does the biologist say the Event occurred that led to the genesis of Area X?

3. What does the psychologist attempt to hypnotize the biologist into doing when she surprises her at the foot of the lighthouse?

4. How do the biologist's perceptions change in the moments before the surveyor dies?

5. What does the biologist discover on the psychologist's arm and shoulder in 04: Immersion?

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