Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Ten

Two

Three

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

Pavlovian signalling

Hypnosis

Positive reinforcement

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

Two years' worth

A decade's worth

One years' worth

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

A few weeks

Six months

Two years

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

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

A set of elementary compasses

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

Fuji film cameras
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 should submit to hypnosis

They have thirty minutes to get to a "safe place"
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?

At least six

Only one

About ten

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

To colonize you

To infiltrate you

To break you

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

Four months

Four days

A year

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

The border

The lighthouse

The abandoned fishing town

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

It is a silo

It is made of wood, not stone

It looks more like a house

It tunnels into the ground
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

It is NOT to be attempted

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

Only superiors should be contacted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?

By an omniscient narrator

In a series of interviews after re-entry

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

Linguist

Psychologist

Chemist
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

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

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?

Anthropologist

Biologist

Psychologist

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

A snail's shell

A salt cave

Nautilus shells

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

A flock of violent geese

A mutated bear

A crocodile

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

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

The anthropologist retreats in fear

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

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

A low, gutteral moan

The rustling of leaves and grass

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A transmission from Area X
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?

Alacazam

Annihilation

Consolidation of authority

Paralysis is not a cogent agent
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?

Heightened senses

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

An internal brightness

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

Surveyor

Anthropologist

Biologist

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

Linguist

Surveyor

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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