Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

1 How many years have supposedly passed since the last expedition?

Two

Three

Ten

Thirty
2 How did the psychologist ensure that every member of the expedition crossed the border without issue?

Pavlovian signalling

Positive reinforcement

Bribery

Hypnosis
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?

A decade's worth

One years' worth

Two years' worth

Six months' worth
4 How long were they told the supplies from base camp could last them?

A decade

Six months

Two years

A few weeks
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?

A set of elementary compasses

Fuji film cameras

A black box with a red lens that glows red in the presence of danger

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?

They should submit to hypnosis

They should hike to the border and await extraction

They have thirty minutes to get to a "safe place"

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?

About ten

Only one

At least six

A thousand
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "

To break you

To habituate you

To infiltrate you

To colonize you
9 How long does it take after reaching base camp for the explorers to find the tower?

Four days

Four months

A week

A year
10 What element of Area X wasn't represented in the maps?

The lighthouse

The border

The tower

The abandoned fishing town
11 What is strange about the biologist's opinion that the unmapped structure is a tower?

It is made of wood, not stone

It tunnels into the ground

It is a silo

It looks more like a house
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?

Only superiors should be contacted

It is NOT to be attempted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact
13 How is the narrative being taken down?

In a series of interviews after re-entry

By an omniscient narrator

In an old dictaphone

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?

Medic

Psychologist

Linguist

Chemist
15 Why is there a sense of relief at the fact that it was the linguist, specifically, who stayed behind?

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

She was the least liked member of the group, on a personal level

She had previously expressed doubts about the expedition

She seemed unqualified, even in her own field
16 What is the biologist's specialty?

Transitional environments

Genetic mutation

Transitional biomes

Fruiting bodies
17 Which member of the expedition opposes searching the tower before mapping the rest of the Area?

Psychologist

Surveyor

Biologist

Anthropologist
18 What natural structure does the biologist compare the interior of the tower to?

Nautilus shells

A snail's shell

A salt cave

A coral reef
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?

A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?

The anthropologist retreats in fear

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A creature from below attacks the expedition party
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A low, gutteral moan

A transmission from Area X

The rustling of leaves and grass
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Alacazam

Annihilation

Consolidation of authority
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?

Allergies

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

An internal brightness

Heightened senses
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?

Anthropologist

Biologist

Psychologist

Surveyor
25 Which of the explorers wishes she could know the biologist's thoughts?

Surveyor

Linguist

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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