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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. Whose journal does the biologist find while inside the lighthouse?

2. How does the biologist describe her mother when talking to the psychologist?

3. Why does the biologist know the layout of the lighthouse?

4. What is one strange side effect that the members of the first expedition express?

5. What reason does the psychologist give for sending the anthropologist down into the Tower?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the biologist discover as she searches the psychologist's body in 04: Immersion?

2. What are some details that the biologist learns from the journals that she finds under the trap door in the lighthouse?

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 decide about the words in the tower?

5. What does the biologist describe as her best field assignment?

6. What does the biologist do after the psychologist dies?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze the significance of the black and white photo that the biologist finds in the lighthouse. Using evidence from the text, make inferences as to who circled the photo and what role the man in the photo plays in the text.

Essay Topic 2

At the conclusion of the novel, the biologist decides to follow her husband's footsteps, explaining that she does not need to find him but that she does need "to see what he saw" (194). How is this scene representative of their marriage?

Essay Topic 3

Though the novel mostly takes place within Area X, the biologist offers occasional descriptions of the outside world from which she came. Write an essay analyzing the biologist's descriptions of the outside world to determine what she believes of the world outside and how these beliefs connect to the themes of the novel.

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