Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Thirty

Two

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

Pavlovian signalling

Positive reinforcement

Hypnosis
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?
One years' worth

Six months' worth

Two years' worth

A decade's worth
4 How long were they told the supplies from base camp could last them?
A decade

Two years

A few weeks

Six months
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

A set of elementary compasses

Fuji film cameras

A black box with a red lens that glows red in the presence of danger
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

They should hike to the border and await extraction

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

They should submit to hypnosis
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
About ten

At least six

A thousand

Only one
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "
To break you

To colonize you

To infiltrate you

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

A week

Four days

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

The tower

The lighthouse

The border
11 What is strange about the biologist's opinion that the unmapped structure is a tower?
It tunnels into the ground

It is made of wood, not stone

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

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

It is NOT to be attempted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

In an old dictaphone

In a series of interviews after re-entry

By an omniscient narrator
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Chemist

Medic

Psychologist

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

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Transitional biomes

Transitional environments

Fruiting bodies

Genetic mutation
17 Which member of the expedition opposes searching the tower before mapping the rest of the Area?
Biologist

Anthropologist

Psychologist

Surveyor
18 What natural structure does the biologist compare the interior of the tower to?
A snail's shell

A coral reef

Nautilus shells

A salt cave
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese

A mutated wild boar

A crocodile
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?
The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

The anthropologist retreats in fear

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?
The rustling of leaves and grass

A transmission from Area X

A low, gutteral moan

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?
Annihilation

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Consolidation of authority

Alacazam
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?
An internal brightness

Allergies

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

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

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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

Surveyor

Linguist

Psychologist

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