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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. How did the agents of the Southern Reach treat the biologist's husband when they took him to the hospital?
(a) They flattered him and even worshipped him.
(b) They treated him viciously and bullied him.
(c) They treated him with great respect, like he was a bomb about to go off.
(d) They ignored him completely.

2. What personal connection does the biologist reveal about herself and Area X in 02: Integration?
(a) Area X was named after her grandpa, Cornelius X.
(b) Her parents were both born in Area X.
(c) Her favorite spot in her childhood was actually a piece of Area X.
(d) Her husband went on the eleventh expedition to Area X.

3. Who does the narrator indicate will be the only other member of the expedition to last more than a day or two?
(a) The psychologist.
(b) Nobody will last more than a day or two.
(c) The surveyor.
(d) The anthropologist.

4. What question keeps the narrator awake after she first discovers the tower in 01: Initiation?
(a) How old is it?
(b) What lies hidden at its base?
(c) Who built it?
(d) What is it for?

5. How does the surveyor respond when the biologist asks whether she will wait at base camp?
(a) The surveyor confirms that she's going to the extraction point immediately.
(b) The surveyor insists that she'll stay behind, no matter what.
(c) The surveyor swears to beat her to the lighthouse.
(d) The surveyor curses at her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What animal comes at them on their hike to base camp in 01:Initiation?

3. What is the name of the government organization overseeing the expedition?

4. What does the narrator do when she realizes she has been contaminated by the organism growing on the walls underground?

5. What does the biologist do when they return to base camp in 01: Initiation?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do the biologist and the surveyor find when they develop the pictures they took in the tunnel?

2. Why did the Southern Reach stop issuing firearms for a while after the third expedition?

3. How do the members of the expedition celebrate after their first exploration of the structure made from coquina and stone?

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

5. What are some of the results that the biologist gains from her tests in 02: Integration?

6. How does the narrator react when she first realizes that the psychologist is issuing a hypnotic command to which she is immune?

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

8. What is the mission of the 12th expedition into Area X?

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

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

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