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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who attacks the biologist on her way back to base camp in 04: Immersion?
(a) The Crawler.
(b) The surveyor.
(c) The psychologist from the eleventh expedition.
(d) The anthropologist.

3. Aside from the anthropologists death, what makes the psychologist upset the morning at base camp in 04: Immersion?
(a) She noticed that the biologist was already changing.
(b) She was afraid that the Crawler would attack them.
(c) She knew she needed to kill the surveyor.
(d) She was afraid that the Southern Reach would come after her for failing the mission.

4. How does the biologist describe her mother when talking to the psychologist?
(a) She calls her a hero.
(b) She calls her an alcoholic.
(c) She calls her an artist.
(d) She calls her a genius.

5. What name does the biologist use for the infection she acquired from the fungal spores?
(a) The crawling.
(b) The verminfeels.
(c) The brightness.
(d) The ensquirmination.

6. What is unique about the photograph the biologist finds in the lighthouse?
(a) It looks like it was from colonial times.
(b) The man in the picture has been circled by someone or something.
(c) The faces have been scratched out.
(d) It has a strange blob in the background that doesn't look human.

7. 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) There were many more expeditions to Area X than 12.
(d) Area X was colonized by aliens.

8. How did the biologist's husband's dreams of floating influence him?
(a) They made him afraid of Area X.
(b) They cured his fear of heights.
(c) They made him want to go to Area X.
(d) They induced a fear of heights.

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

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

11. What does the biologist discover on the psychologist's arm and shoulder in 04: Immersion?
(a) Scales.
(b) A colony of green-gold fungi.
(c) Weeping, cancerous growths.
(d) A tattoo of a skeleton carrying one of the black boxes.

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

13. What name does the biologist give to the thing writing words on the walls of the tower?
(a) The Writer.
(b) The Crawler.
(c) Hans.
(d) She does not give it a name.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What reason does the psychologist give for sending the anthropologist down into the Tower?

3. What peculiarity does the biologist perceive about the Tower as she stands in the lighthouse, before determining that it is not worth considering?

4. What is the worst thing the biologist finds on the lighthouse stairs?

5. What first surprises the biologist when she arrives to the psychologist's position at the foot of the lighthouse?

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