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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What confuses the surveyor about the gear that the expedition was given?
(a) The gear is all covered with strange markings.
(b) The gear is all 50 years out of date.
(c) The gear seems to have a life of its own.
(d) The gear changes subtly overnight.

2. What method does the psychologist use to keep the members of the expedition from hallucinating as they enter?
(a) Medication.
(b) Mindfulness exercises.
(c) Sleep deprivation.
(d) Hypnosis.

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

4. Who does not want to go back to the tower in 02: Integration?
(a) The surveyor.
(b) The biologist.
(c) All three remaining members.
(d) The psychologist.

5. What object do the surveyor and the biologist encounter on the stairs during their second trip into the tower?
(a) The corpse of the linguist.
(b) A horrible monster that writes on the walls.
(c) The secret map of Area X.
(d) The corpse of the anthropologist.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the biologist give the surveyor the first watch of the night?

3. What new precautions do the expedition members plan to take before going back underground in 01: Initiation?

4. What is the first thing that the biologist notices when she enters the tower the second time?

5. How does the surveyor feel about the status of the mission in 02: Integration?

Short Essay Questions

1. What new precaution does the psychologist announce in "Initiation," on the narrator's recommendation?

2. What discovery frightens the biologist and the surveyor within the tower in 02: Integration?

3. What does the biologist notice first about the tunnel the second time she enters it?

4. In 02: Integration, what is the biologist's theory about what happened to the anthropologist?

5. How does the biologist feel when members of the Southern Reach come for her husband after he returned from Area X?

6. What does the anthropologist's body look like when the biologist finds her in the tunnel?

7. Why are the members of the expedition told not to share their journals with one another?

8. What is the moaning sound that the expedition hears in Area X?

9. How does the surveyor respond when the biologist asks whether she can perceive the tower breathing?

10. What commonalities did the narrator notice when looking through interview materials from the participants of the 11th expedition?

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