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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 time does the biologist believe she can make it back to base camp by?

2. What name does the biologist give to the thing writing words on the walls of the tower?

3. What does the biologist find when she reads the surveyor's journal?

4. How does the room at the top of the lighthouse differ from the areas preceding it?

5. What begins to happen to the biologist's skin in 04: Immersion?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the biologist see when she looks to the ground below the lighthouse?

2. What does the biologist discover below the trap door in the lighthouse?

3. What sort of responses does the biologist gives to the psychologist during their sessions?

4. What does the biologist discover about the black boxes?

5. What are some details that the biologist learns from the journals that she finds under the trap door in the lighthouse?

6. How does the psychologist respond when the biologist asks for more information about the border crossing?

7. What does the biologist learn about the moaning noise on her way back to basecamp in 04: Immersion?

8. What is the nickname that the biologist's husband gives her and what does it mean?

9. What is unique about the dolphin that the biologist experiences on her way to the lighthouse?

10. What does the biologist reveal about the first expedition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the significance of the black and white photo that the biologist finds in the lighthouse. Using evidence from the text, make inferences as to who circled the photo and what role the man in the photo plays in the text.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Though the novel mostly takes place within Area X, the biologist offers occasional descriptions of the outside world from which she came. Write an essay analyzing the biologist's descriptions of the outside world to determine what she believes of the world outside and how these beliefs connect to the themes of the novel.

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