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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through 05: Dissolution.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the psychologist give for abandoning the expedition?
(a) The expedition had been compromised.
(b) The surveyor and biologist could do fine on their own.
(c) She wanted to pursue new opportunities in an unrelated field.
(d) She secretly believed that the surveyor and biologist had chemistry and wanted to give them alone time.

2. What does the biologist see in the canal in 03: Immolation?
(a) A whale.
(b) A dolphin.
(c) A giant school of fish.
(d) A boat.

3. What makes the expedition team laugh over dinner in 01: Initiation?
(a) They watch a group of ducks on the pond.
(b) The psychologist spills soup on herself.
(c) The surveyor tells them all dirty jokes.
(d) When the anthropologists says, "I wish I knew what you were thinking," and the biologist responds, "no you don't" (31).

4. How did the biologist "screw up" her assignment at Rock Bay?
(a) She did not stick to the focus of the job.
(b) She spent too much time getting to know the locals.
(c) She forgot to record any of her findings.
(d) She got drunk and embarrassed her organization.

5. According to the biologist, who is the last casualty of the eleventh expedition?
(a) Her husband.
(b) The psychologist.
(c) The linguist.
(d) Herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the psychologist stay in the tunnel in 01: Initiation?

2. How does the biologist characterize her husband's behavior upon his return from Area X?

3. What does the narrator do when she realizes she has been contaminated by the organism growing on the walls underground?

4. What did the biologist's husband see walking out of the Tower?

5. What happened to the members of the second expedition sent to explore the area that the narrator's expedition explores?

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