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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 begins to happen to the biologist's skin in 04: Immersion?
2. What does the biologist do with the psychologist's gun and personal letter in 04: Immersion?
3. What is the biologist studying in Rock Bay?
4. What do the black boxes measure, according to the psychologist?
5. How does the room at the top of the lighthouse differ from the areas preceding it?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the biologist describe as her best field assignment?
2. What is unique about the dolphin that the biologist experiences on her way to the lighthouse?
3. What does the biologist reveal about the first expedition?
4. What does the biologist discover below the trap door in the lighthouse?
5. What does the biologist discover as she searches the psychologist's body in 04: Immersion?
6. How does the psychologist respond when the biologist asks for more information about the border crossing?
7. What are some details that the biologist learns from the journals that she finds under the trap door in the lighthouse?
8. What is strange about the vegetation in the abandoned village in 03:Immolation?
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. How does the "brightness" impact the biologist after she is shot?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
The narrator of this text is the Biologist. Write an essay analyzing the pros and cons of Vandermeer's choice to write the text from the first person point of view. Be sure to address the reliability of the narrator.
Essay Topic 2
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 3
The journals that are found in the lighthouse reveal as much to the biologist as they do further her confusion. What do the journals symbolize? In what ways do they make her understanding of this missions and Area X more defined? In what ways do they further confuse her?
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