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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the government organization overseeing the expedition?
(a) The Pentagon.
(b) The Southern Reach.
(c) The Bureau of Extranormal Affairs.
(d) The FBI.

2. What happens to the biologist when she gets too close to the words on the wall?
(a) She is pricked by a strange bug.
(b) She passes out.
(c) She breaths in spores.
(d) She notices a sour smell.

3. Who goes into the tunnel the second time?
(a) All three remaining members.
(b) The surveyor and the biologist.
(c) The psychologist.
(d) The psychologist and the biologist.

4. Why do the biologist and the surveyor wish they had the linguist while they are in the tunnel?
(a) So she could tell them the origin of the words.
(b) So she could tell them how long the words had been there.
(c) So she could read the brale.
(d) So she could translate the foreign language.

5. Which member of the expedition does the narrator get along with better than she expected?
(a) The linguist.
(b) The anthropologist.
(c) The surveyor.
(d) The psychologist.

Short Answer Questions

1. What important feature of the terrain is missing from the expedition's maps?

2. Who sees the tower first in 01:Initiation?

3. What substance do the surveyor and the biologist discover on the stairs during their second trip into the tower?

4. What makes the expedition team laugh over dinner in 01: Initiation?

5. At what time of day does a low, powerful moan always sound in the area that the expedition explores?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Southern Reach stop issuing firearms for a while after the third expedition?

2. Why did the members of the 12th expedition not know about the Tower/Tunnel ahead of time?

3. What is unique about the pool that the biologist had at her home growing up?

4. What is the moaning sound that the expedition hears in Area X?

5. How does the psychologist get the biologist and the surveyor to go into the tunnel without her In Integration?

6. What does the biologist notice first about the tunnel the second time she enters it?

7. What is recorded about the first expedition into Area X?

8. After they discover the body of the anthropologist in 02: Integration, how does the biologist's view on the expedition change?

9. What are the members of the 12th expedition told to do with their journals?

10. How does the biologist feel when members of the Southern Reach come for her husband after he returned from Area X?

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