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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 is one strange side effect that the members of the first expedition express?

2. What does the biologist find on the landing half-way up the lighthouse?

3. How does the psychologist describe the biologist's dad?

4. What does the biologist discover when she goes to the back of the base camp after her final encounter with the surveyor?

5. How does the logbook written in a "spidery hand" (117) describe the writings that the biologist attributes to the Crawler?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the biologist learn as she reads the surveyor's journal?

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

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

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

6. How do the words on the walls of the lighthouse differ from the words on the walls of the tower?

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

8. What does the biologist reveal about her husband's nightmares?

9. What does the biologist decide about the words in the tower?

10. What does the biologist do after the psychologist dies?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Is this a feminist text? Analyze specific details in the text to help you support your thesis. Be sure to include the definition of feminist and include a feminist critique of the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the relationship between the psychologist and the biologist. Pay special attention to the final scene where the biologist finds the psychologist on the beach. Consider what the psychologist's motivation is compared to the biologist's.

Essay Topic 3

The narrator of this text is the Biologist. Write an essay analyzing the pros and cons of Vandermeer's choice to write the text from the first person point of view. Be sure to address the reliability of the narrator.

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