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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

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. What is the purpose of the black device the members of the expedition wear?

3. How does the biologist characterize her husband's behavior upon his return from Area X?

4. What does the first expedition report about Area X?

5. How does the narrator feel when she sees the psychologist use hypnosis?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the surveyor and biologist realize when they exit the tunnel in 02: Integration?

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

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

5. What do the biologist and the surveyor discover when they wake up at the beginning of 02: Integration?

6. What hypnotic commands does the psychologist give the team on the evening after they first explore the tower?

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

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

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

10. How does the psychologist get the biologist and the surveyor to go into the tunnel without her In Integration?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Biologist is infected by something in Area X. She changes throughout the text due to this infection and begins to refer to her infection as "brightness." Does this infection make her more or less human? In other words, does Area X have a positive or negative effect on her?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the mental stability of the narrator. Be sure to use examples of the narrator's past (including her marriage and childhood). Is she a mentally stable character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

At the conclusion of the novel, the biologist decides to follow her husband's footsteps, explaining that she does not need to find him but that she does need "to see what he saw" (194). How is this scene representative of their marriage?

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