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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the source of the terrible nightmares that plagued the biologist's husband for years?
(a) A frightening news story.
(b) An old horror movie.
(c) Horrific abuse by his parents.
(d) Insidious visits from Area X's creatures.

2. What does the biologist find when she investigates the back room at the lower level of the lighthouse?
(a) Upturned furniture, bullet holes and other signs of a massacre.
(b) Signs of a creature that had been taken over by Area X.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) A featureless room.

3. Finish this quote from one member of the first expedition: "I could do anything as long as I did not mind..."
(a) "...Constant nausea."
(b) "...Being watched."
(c) "...Eating vegetarian food."
(d) "...Smelling like a wet dog."

4. What is the final question the biologist asks the psychologist before she dies?
(a) Why did you come here?
(b) Did you know about the journals?
(c) Where you going to kill me?
(d) Did you know my husband?

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

6. What reason does the psychologist give for abandoning the expedition?
(a) The surveyor and biologist could do fine on their own.
(b) The expedition had been compromised.
(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.

7. What does the psychologist reveal about the first expedition?
(a) The Southern Reach used political prisoners.
(b) There never was a first expedition, they are the first expedition.
(c) The entire expedition died.
(d) There is video footage of it.

8. What time does the biologist reach the lighthouse in 03: Immolation?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Noon.
(c) 2.
(d) 1.

9. What time does the biologist believe she can make it back to base camp by?
(a) Midnight.
(b) 6am.
(c) 10 pm.
(d) 2 am.

10. How did the psychologist end up on the ground at the bottom of the lighthouse?
(a) She was pushed by the biologist.
(b) She thought she saw something terrible behind her so she jumped.
(c) She climbed the lighthouse with the intention of leaping to her doom.
(d) She was pushed by the lighthouse keeper.

11. How does the psychologist explain the fear that the Southern Reach has for Area X?
(a) Area X conceals a terrorist faction dedicated to ending the Southern Reach.
(b) Area X is expanding.
(c) If people found out how nice it was in Area X, they would abandon their jobs, dooming the Southern Reach's benefactors within the military-industrial complex.
(d) Area X conceals secrets that would damage the Southern Reach if discovered.

12. What does the biologist believe her husband would have done if he was with her?
(a) He would have gotten infected as well.
(b) He would have abandoned her to her fate.
(c) He would have assumed she was being hysterical.
(d) He would have tried to cure her of the brightness.

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

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

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 is surrounded by angry boars.
(b) The Tower appears to be made from flesh from afar.
(c) The only road to the Tower doesn't match the path she took.
(d) The Tower seems to glow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the biologist determine from the sheer quantity of the journals that she discovers in the lighthouse?

2. How do the biologist's perceptions change in the moments before the surveyor dies?

3. What do the black boxes measure, according to the psychologist?

4. What does the biologist discover on the psychologist's arm and shoulder in 04: Immersion?

5. What is carved into one of the tables in the lighthouse?

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