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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 does the biologist find when she investigates the back room at the lower level of the lighthouse?

2. How does the psychologist describe the biologist's mother?

3. What name does the biologist use for the infection she acquired from the fungal spores?

4. How did the biologist perceive the psychologist's professional reaction to her recalcitrant answers during their training sessions?

5. What are the some of the plant life shaped like in the abandoned village?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the biologist's description of her parents differ from the psychologist's description of them?

2. How does the "brightness" impact the biologist after she is shot?

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

4. What does the biologist discover in the lower levels of the lighthouse?

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

6. Where does the biologist plan to go at the start of 03: Immolation?

7. What happens when the biologist returns to base camp after the psychologist dies?

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

9. What does the biologist notice about the lighthouse when she sees it for the first time?

10. What are the psychologist's first words to the biologist at the bottom of the lighthouse and what do we later learn they mean?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Analyze the role of the biologist's husband in the text. Why would Vandermeer include him in the text? What does he reveal about the character(s) and how does he move the plot forward?

Essay Topic 3

One of the prominent themes of the novel is "what makes us human." Analyze how this text grapples with that idea. Use the text for evidence and analyze, according to the text, what makes us human.

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