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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 do the members of the expedition find on the walls of the tunnel?
(a) Human blood.
(b) Human hair.
(c) Beetles.
(d) Words.

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

3. What killed the narrator's husband?
(a) Cancer.
(b) A heart attack.
(c) A scientist who went crazy in Area X.
(d) A monster within Area X.

4. What does the biologist do when they return to base camp in 01: Initiation?
(a) Analyzes samples they took from the tunnel.
(b) Observes a tiny red and green frog.
(c) Take a nap.
(d) Had a heart to heart with the anthropologist.

5. Why do the biologist and the surveyor wish they had the linguist while they are in the tunnel?
(a) So she could translate the foreign language.
(b) So she could tell them how long the words had been there.
(c) So she could read the brale.
(d) So she could tell them the origin of the words.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the biologist, surveyor and psychologist prepared with this time (in 02: Integration) that is different from the first time they entered the tunnel?

2. Which member of the expedition does the narrator get along with better than she expected?

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

4. Which member drops out before they even enter Area X?

5. To what do the inhaled spores make the narrator immune?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the biologist believe would happen if the expedition members were to immediately search for the anthropologist in 02: Integration?

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

3. What is unique about the pool that the biologist had at her home growing up?

4. Why did the members of the 12th expedition not know about the Tower/Tunnel ahead of time?

5. What are the members of the 12th expedition told to do with their journals?

6. What happens when the members of the expedition call back to the low moaning sound that comes from Area X at dusk?

7. What does the biologist notice about the psychologist in the initial conversation about the anthropologist's absence in 02: Integration?

8. How does the psychologist explain the absence of the anthropologist in 02: Integration?

9. What is the surveyor's reaction when the biologist tells her that the psychologist has been hypnotizing them?

10. What does the psychologist plan to do while the surveyor and biologist explore the tower in 02: Integration?

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