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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not go into the tunnel during the first exploration?

2. What does the biologist see as she stands watch at night in 02: Integration?

3. To what do the inhaled spores make the narrator immune?

4. Which member of the expedition is missing at the beginning of 02: Integration?

5. What did every member of the prior expedition include in their drawings and notes about the area?

Short Essay Questions

1. What commonalities did the narrator notice when looking through interview materials from the participants of the 11th expedition?

2. What is the mission of the 12th expedition into Area X?

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

4. What do the surveyor and biologist realize when they exit the tunnel in 02: Integration?

5. What does the psychologist plan to do while the surveyor and biologist explore the tower in 02: Integration?

6. What happens when the members of the expedition call back to the low moaning sound that comes from Area X at dusk?

7. In 02: Integration, what is the biologist's theory about what happened to the anthropologist?

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

9. What do the biologist and the surveyor find when they develop the pictures they took in the tunnel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the symbol of the lighthouse in the novel. What is its significance and deeper meaning?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the symbol of the Crawler. What does it represent to the biologist as well as its meaning within the text?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze Vandermeer's use, or lack their of, of names and the ambiguity of language in the text. Why does Vandermeer keep the charters nameless?

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