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?
Bribery

Positive reinforcement

Pavlovian signalling

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

A decade's worth

One years' worth

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

A few weeks

Two years

A decade
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
A set of elementary compasses

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

Fuji film cameras

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

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

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

They should hike to the border and await extraction
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
A thousand

Only one

About ten

At least six
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "
To infiltrate you

To colonize you

To habituate you

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

Four days

Four months

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

The border

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 tunnels into the ground

It looks more like a house
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?
It is NOT to be attempted

Only superiors should be contacted

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?
By an omniscient narrator

In an old dictaphone

In a series of interviews after re-entry

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

Medic

Linguist

Psychologist
15 Why is there a sense of relief at the fact that it was the linguist, specifically, who stayed behind?
She had previously expressed doubts about the expedition

She seemed unqualified, even in her own field

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

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

Transitional environments

Genetic mutation

Transitional biomes
17 Which member of the expedition opposes searching the tower before mapping the rest of the Area?
Surveyor

Anthropologist

Biologist

Psychologist
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 crocodile

A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese

A mutated wild boar
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?
The anthropologist retreats in fear

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

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

A low, gutteral moan

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

The rustling of leaves and grass
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

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Heightened senses

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

Surveyor

Anthropologist

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

Linguist

Surveyor

Psychologist

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