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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the logbook written in a "spidery hand" (117) describe the writings that the biologist attributes to the Crawler?
(a) They say its writing is like an alien presence.
(b) They compare its writings to the Old Testament.
(c) They compare its writings to Dr. Seuss.
(d) They say its writing is unlike anything they have ever read.

2. What does the biologist learn about the sample that she studies at base camp in 02: Integration?
(a) It consists of the anthropologist's own blood.
(b) It consists of liver tissue from a boar.
(c) It consists of fruiting bodies from the fungi on the walls.
(d) It consists of brain tissue from an human creature.

3. Where has the biologist never been comfortable?
(a) Ponds.
(b) Forests.
(c) Cities.
(d) Tidal pools.

4. What happens to the biologist when she gets too close to the words on the wall?
(a) She breaths in spores.
(b) She passes out.
(c) She is pricked by a strange bug.
(d) She notices a sour smell.

5. What new precautions do the expedition members plan to take before going back underground in 01: Initiation?
(a) They will use smoke to smoke out any dangerous beasts.
(b) They will call in a tactical nuclear strike over the area.
(c) They will wear breathing masks.
(d) They will burn every living thing they see.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the biologist believe her husband would have done if he was with her?

2. What does the psychologist use hypnosis to keep the surveyor and anthropologist from doing?

3. What does the biologist see as she stands watch at night in 02: Integration?

4. To what do the inhaled spores make the narrator immune?

5. How did the agents of the Southern Reach treat the biologist's husband when they took him to the hospital?

(see the answer key)

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