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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. Where does the biologist retreat after her encounter with the pale moaning creature in 04: Immersion?
2. How does the psychologist explain the fear that the Southern Reach has for Area X?
3. What do the black boxes measure, according to the psychologist?
4. What does the psychologist reveal about the first expedition?
5. What does the physiologist want to know about the surveyor in 04: Immersion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the biologist notice about the lighthouse when she sees it for the first time?
2. What sort of responses does the biologist gives to the psychologist during their sessions?
3. What does the biologist suspect about those personality traits of hers that the psychologist might have been professionally inclined to disapprove of?
4. What does the biologist discover about the black boxes?
5. How does the biologist's description of her parents differ from the psychologist's description of them?
6. What does the biologist infer about the man whose face is circled in the picture she discovers in the lighthouse?
7. What are some details that the biologist learns from the journals that she finds under the trap door in the lighthouse?
8. What happens when the biologist returns to base camp after the psychologist dies?
9. What does the biologist describe as her best field assignment?
10. What does the biologist discover below the trap door in the lighthouse?
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
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
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?
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