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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the biologist do when they return to base camp in 01: Initiation?
(a) Analyzes samples they took from the tunnel.
(b) Take a nap.
(c) Observes a tiny red and green frog.
(d) Had a heart to heart with the anthropologist.

2. What does the biologist find when she reads the surveyor's journal?
(a) The surveyor had written all of her entries as haiku.
(b) It has only one entry, a cryptic reference to the anthropologist's return from the Tower.
(c) It is filled with hateful yet admittedly accurate commentary of the surveyor's companions.
(d) It is mostly filled with surveying notes.

3. What words keep standing out to the biologist in one particular journal?
(a) "Annihilation."
(b) "This land is your land."
(c) "repelling and attack."
(d) "I hope they save us."

4. Which member drops out before they even enter Area X?
(a) A medical doctor.
(b) A nuclear physicist.
(c) A chemist.
(d) A linguist.

5. What does the biologist determine from the sheer quantity of the journals that she discovers in the lighthouse?
(a) Most of the journals must be empty or photocopied from other expeditions.
(b) Area X must induce hypergraphia in its travelers.
(c) There have been more than 12 expeditions to Area X.
(d) She is a less dedicated writer than she realized.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the psychologist explain the fear that the Southern Reach has for Area X?

3. How does the narrator feel when she sees the psychologist use hypnosis?

4. What was the gender composition of the 11th expedition?

5. What did the biologist's husband want to do after discovering the pile of journals?

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