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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 is carved into one of the tables in the lighthouse?
2. What does the psychologist reveal about the first expedition?
3. How long ago does the biologist say the Event occurred that led to the genesis of Area X?
4. What line from a song keeps coming to the biologist?
5. Who attacks the biologist on her way back to base camp in 04: Immersion?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does the biologist discover as she searches the psychologist's body in 04: Immersion?
2. What does the biologist reveal about her husband's nightmares?
3. What does the biologist infer about the man whose face is circled in the picture she discovers in the lighthouse?
4. What does the biologist suspect about those personality traits of hers that the psychologist might have been professionally inclined to disapprove of?
5. What does the biologist see when she looks to the ground below the lighthouse?
6. What does the biologist discover about the black boxes?
7. What does the biologist do after the psychologist dies?
8. Where does the biologist plan to go at the start of 03: Immolation?
9. How does the psychologist respond when the biologist asks for more information about the border crossing?
10. What does the biologist learn about the moaning noise on her way back to basecamp in 04: Immersion?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Analyze Vandermeer's use, or lack their of, of names and the ambiguity of language in the text. Why does Vandermeer keep the charters nameless?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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