Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Three

Ten

Two

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

Six months' worth

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

Six months

Two years

A few weeks

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

A set of elementary compasses

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

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 thirty minutes to get to a "safe place"

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

They should submit to hypnosis

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

About ten

At least six

Only one
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "

To colonize you

To infiltrate you

To habituate you

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

Four days

A week

A year

Four months
10 What element of Area X wasn't represented in the maps?

The tower

The border

The lighthouse

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

It is a silo

It tunnels into the ground

It is made of wood, not stone

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

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

It is NOT to be attempted

Only superiors should be contacted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night
13 How is the narrative being taken down?

By an omniscient narrator

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

In an old dictaphone

In a series of interviews after re-entry
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?

Chemist

Psychologist

Medic

Linguist
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

She had previously expressed doubts about the expedition

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

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

Psychologist

Surveyor

Anthropologist

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

A coral reef

Nautilus shells

A salt cave

A snail's shell
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?

A mutated wild boar

A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese

A crocodile
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 creature from below attacks the expedition party

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

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

The rustling of leaves and grass

A transmission from Area X

A low, gutteral moan
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?

Allergies

An internal brightness

Heightened senses

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?

Psychologist

Anthropologist

Surveyor

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

Anthropologist

Linguist

Surveyor

Psychologist

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