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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 confuses the surveyor about the gear that the expedition was given?
(a) The gear is all covered with strange markings.
(b) The gear is all 50 years out of date.
(c) The gear changes subtly overnight.
(d) The gear seems to have a life of its own.

2. Who sees the tower first in 01:Initiation?
(a) The psychologist.
(b) The linguist.
(c) The anthropologist.
(d) The biologist.

3. How does the surveyor respond when the biologist asks whether she will wait at base camp?
(a) The surveyor swears to beat her to the lighthouse.
(b) The surveyor curses at her.
(c) The surveyor confirms that she's going to the extraction point immediately.
(d) The surveyor insists that she'll stay behind, no matter what.

4. How many people are in the 12th expedition originally?
(a) 7.
(b) 3.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

5. What do the surveyor and the biologist discover when they return to base camp after their second trip into the tower?
(a) The boar is there, waiting for them.
(b) The base camp has been burnt to the ground.
(c) The tower has expanded to swallow the base camp.
(d) The psychologist has left, taking the supplies with her.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the first thing that the biologist notices when she enters the tower the second time?

3. What does the psychologist do when they return to base camp in 01: Initiation?

4. Where does the biologist expect to find the psychologist in 02: Integration?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the surveyor's reaction when the biologist tells her that the psychologist has been hypnotizing them?

2. How do the members of the expedition celebrate after their first exploration of the structure made from coquina and stone?

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

4. How does the narrator react when she first realizes that the psychologist is issuing a hypnotic command to which she is immune?

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

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

7. What does the anthropologist's body look like when the biologist finds her in the tunnel?

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

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

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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