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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word does the psychologist repeat over and over to the biologist?
(a) Immolation.
(b) Area-X.
(c) Annihilation.
(d) Immersion.

2. How does the narrator describe the residents of Rock Bay?
(a) Gregarious.
(b) Ravingly bigoted.
(c) Taciturn.
(d) Naive but helpful.

3. How did the biologist spend her last few nights in Rock Bay?
(a) Calling her husband every day because she couldn't wait to go home.
(b) Getting drunk in the pub, dreading the end of her assignment.
(c) Spreading pesticides and herbicides to thwart her scientific rivals.
(d) Spreading gossip and rumors to punish the townsfolk.

4. What is the psychologist's final request?
(a) To be cremated.
(b) For the biologist to find her wife and tell her the psychologist is sorry.
(c) To be buried.
(d) To be left exactly where she dies.

5. What does the psychologist attempt to hypnotize the biologist into doing when she surprises her at the foot of the lighthouse?
(a) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into mercy-killing her.
(b) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into helping her.
(c) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into running away.
(d) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into committing suicide.

6. Which field assignment is Rock Bay for the biologist?
(a) Her first.
(b) Her tenth.
(c) Her fifth.
(d) Her third.

7. What is carved into one of the tables in the lighthouse?
(a) "This is all a dream."
(b) "Tell my family I love them."
(c) "R.S. was here."
(d) "Words. Words. Words."

8. What is the worst thing the biologist finds on the lighthouse stairs?
(a) A dilapidated toy rabbit.
(b) A dying deer.
(c) A dead body.
(d) A human hand.

9. Where does the biologist retreat after her encounter with the pale moaning creature in 04: Immersion?
(a) She makes it the rest of the way to base camp.
(b) She sleeps in a tree.
(c) She heads back to the lighthouse.
(d) She dives into a nearby cave.

10. What does the physiologist want to know about the surveyor in 04: Immersion?
(a) If the biologist kill her.
(b) Where she is.
(c) When she died.
(d) If she got back across the border.

11. What is one strange side effect that the members of the first expedition express?
(a) Very vivid dreams.
(b) Extreme rage.
(c) Extreme fear.
(d) Extreme sexual desire.

12. How does the biologist describe her dad when talking to the psychologist?
(a) She calls him a conman.
(b) She calls him a genius.
(c) She calls him a madman.
(d) She calls him an entrepreneur.

13. What are the some of the plant life shaped like in the abandoned village?
(a) People.
(b) Sea Creatures.
(c) Airplanes.
(d) Wild Boars.

14. What begins to happen to the biologist's skin in 04: Immersion?
(a) She can cut herself without bleeding.
(b) Words begin to appear on it.
(c) It begins to grow those hand creatures she saw in the tunnel.
(d) It begins to glow.

15. What peculiarity does the biologist perceive about the Tower as she stands in the lighthouse, before determining that it is not worth considering?
(a) The Tower seems to glow.
(b) The Tower is surrounded by angry boars.
(c) The only road to the Tower doesn't match the path she took.
(d) The Tower appears to be made from flesh from afar.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the final question the biologist asks the psychologist before she dies?

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

3. What does the Southern Reach tell the people in the surrounding areas to explain Area X?

4. How did the biologist's husband's dreams of floating influence him?

5. What does the biologist do with the psychologist's gun and personal letter in 04: Immersion?

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