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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 does the biologist find on the landing half-way up the lighthouse?

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

3. What does the biologist discover underneath the rug in the top room of the lighthouse?

4. What does the biologist pass on her way to the lighthouse in 03: Immolation?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the biologist decide about the words in the tower?

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

3. What does the biologist reveal about the first expedition?

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

5. What does the biologist discover below the trap door in the lighthouse?

6. What does the biologist learn about the moaning noise on her way back to basecamp in 04: Immersion?

7. How does the psychologist respond when the biologist asks for more information about the border crossing?

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

9. What sort of responses does the biologist gives to the psychologist during their sessions?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the mental stability of the narrator. Be sure to use examples of the narrator's past (including her marriage and childhood). Is she a mentally stable character? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Analyze the relationship between the psychologist and the biologist. Pay special attention to the final scene where the biologist finds the psychologist on the beach. Consider what the psychologist's motivation is compared to the biologist's.

Essay Topic 3

Much focus is placed on the mysterious words that appear on the wall of the Tower, which the novel's characters describe as sounding biblical. Write an essay analyzing the rhetorical style of these words and create a thesis that supports or denies that they are biblical in nature. Conclude the essay by analyzing what role, if any, religion has in this text.

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