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

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

3. What does the psychologist attempt to hypnotize the biologist into doing when she surprises her at the foot of the lighthouse?

4. What does the biologist take samples of in the abandoned town in 03: Immolation?

5. What does the psychologist say the biologist was doing as she walked to the lighthouse?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the biologist describe as her best field assignment?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

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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