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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is unusual about the shed husk that the biologist kicks over?
(a) It looks like the skin of an extinct species of snake.
(b) It resembles a familiar human face.
(c) It's still alive.
(d) It is made of solid gold woven into fine strands.

2. 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 committing suicide.
(c) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into helping her.
(d) She attempts to hypnotize the biologist into running away.

3. 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) Did you know my husband?
(d) Where you going to kill me?

4. When she gets closer, what does the biologist notice that the lighthouse resembles?
(a) A fortress.
(b) A pile of rubble.
(c) An enormous library packed wall-to-wall with books.
(d) A semi-casual dining establishment.

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

6. What does the biologist see when she looks down from the top of the lighthouse balcony?
(a) The psychologist's body.
(b) A far-away beam of light.
(c) A doppelganger of herself standing on a doppelganger of the lighthouse.
(d) The boar.

7. How does the psychologist explain the fear that the Southern Reach has for Area X?
(a) Area X conceals secrets that would damage the Southern Reach if discovered.
(b) 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.
(c) Area X is expanding.
(d) Area X conceals a terrorist faction dedicated to ending the Southern Reach.

8. What does the surveyor accuse the biologist of?
(a) Working with the psychologist to poison them.
(b) Hunting her this entire time.
(c) No longer being human.
(d) Taking all of her food supplies to kill her.

9. What first surprises the biologist when she arrives to the psychologist's position at the foot of the lighthouse?
(a) She is surprised that the psychologist is dead.
(b) She is surprised that the psychologist is alive.
(c) She is surprised that the psychologist is not happy to see her.
(d) She is surprised that she never saw the psychologist lying there before.

10. How do the biologist's perceptions change in the moments before the surveyor dies?
(a) She hallucinates her own face onto the surveyor's body.
(b) The brightness enhances her senses.
(c) She hallucinates that the surveyor dies seconds before she does.
(d) Her fear of death drives her to hysterical blindness.

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

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

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

14. What do the journals reveal about Area X?
(a) Area X is getting smaller.
(b) Area X is where the government is testing chemicals.
(c) Area X was colonized by aliens.
(d) There were many more expeditions to Area X than 12.

15. What nickname did the biologist go by with her husband?
(a) Cicada Omega.
(b) She-Devil.
(c) Ghost bird.
(d) St. Pugnacious.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the biologist initially do with the item that she finds in the lighthouse?

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

4. What does the biologist pass on her way to the lighthouse in 03: Immolation?

5. What begins to happen to the biologist's skin in 04: Immersion?

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