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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. How does the narrator describe the residents of Rock Bay?

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

3. Finish this quote from one member of the first expedition: "I could do anything as long as I did not mind..."

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

5. What word does the psychologist repeat over and over to the biologist?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the biologist infer about the man whose face is circled in the picture she discovers in the lighthouse?

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

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

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

6. How does the "brightness" impact the biologist after she is shot?

7. What does the biologist learn as she reads the surveyor's journal?

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

9. How does the biologist's description of her parents differ from the psychologist's description of them?

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

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

Define the term "foil" as it pertains to characters in a novel or story. Who is a foil to the biologist? Use evidence from the text and carefully explain why this selection was made.

Essay Topic 3

The Biologist is infected by something in Area X. She changes throughout the text due to this infection and begins to refer to her infection as "brightness." Does this infection make her more or less human? In other words, does Area X have a positive or negative effect on her?

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