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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. What are the some of the plant life shaped like in the abandoned village?

2. What is the source of the glow that convinces the biologist to retreat from the lighthouse?

3. What reason does the psychologist give when the biologist asks her why she did not shoot?

4. What has been attached to the sides of the lighthouse?

5. Why does the biologist recognize the face she saw on the shed husk?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is one thing that the biologist and psychologist argue about while they are on the beach?

2. What reason does the psychologist give the biologist for being on the beach?

3. How do the words on the walls of the lighthouse differ from the words on the walls of the tower?

4. What does the biologist discover in the lower levels of the lighthouse?

5. What does the biologist reveal about her husband's nightmares?

6. What does the biologist see when she looks to the ground below the lighthouse?

7. What are the psychologist's first words to the biologist at the bottom of the lighthouse and what do we later learn they mean?

8. What does the biologist suspect about those personality traits of hers that the psychologist might have been professionally inclined to disapprove of?

9. Where does the biologist plan to go at the start of 03: Immolation?

10. What does the biologist discover about the black boxes?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the prominent themes of the novel is "what makes us human." Analyze how this text grapples with that idea. Use the text for evidence and analyze, according to the text, what makes us human.

Essay Topic 2

This novel is an example of Science Fiction. Can Science Fiction be "good literature"? Write an essay answering the questions: What qualifies something as "good literature" and does this novel fall into that category?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze the role of the biologist's husband in the text. Why would Vandermeer include him in the text? What does he reveal about the character(s) and how does he move the plot forward?

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