Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Three

Ten

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

Hypnosis

Pavlovian signalling

Bribery
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 few weeks

A decade

Six months

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

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

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

Fuji film cameras
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They should hike to the border and await extraction

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"
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
A thousand

About ten

Only one

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

To habituate you

To break you

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

Four months

A week

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

The lighthouse

The border

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

It looks more like a house

It is a silo

It is made of wood, not stone
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 waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

In a series of interviews after re-entry

In an old dictaphone
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Medic

Chemist

Linguist

Psychologist
15 Why is there a sense of relief at the fact that it was the linguist, specifically, who stayed behind?
She seemed unqualified, even in her own field

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
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Transitional environments

Transitional biomes

Fruiting bodies

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

Surveyor

Psychologist

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

A coral reef

A snail's shell

Nautilus shells
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese

A crocodile

A mutated bear
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

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall
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?
Consolidation of authority

Annihilation

Alacazam

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

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Allergies

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

Surveyor

Psychologist

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

Anthropologist

Linguist

Surveyor

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