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?

Positive reinforcement

Bribery

Hypnosis

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

Six months' worth

One years' worth

A decade's worth

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

Two years

A decade

Six months

A few weeks
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

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

Fuji film cameras
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?

They should submit to hypnosis

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

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

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

At least six

Only one

About ten
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?

Four months

A week

A year

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

The tower

The lighthouse

The abandoned fishing town

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

It is made of wood, not stone

It is a silo

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?

Only superiors should be contacted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

It is NOT to be attempted

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact
13 How is the narrative being taken down?

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

By an omniscient narrator

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?

Linguist

Chemist

Psychologist

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

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

She was the least liked member of the group, on a personal level
16 What is the biologist's specialty?

Fruiting bodies

Transitional biomes

Transitional environments

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

Psychologist

Biologist

Anthropologist

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

A snail's shell

A coral reef

A salt cave

Nautilus shells
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?

A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese

A mutated bear

A crocodile
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?

The rustling of leaves and grass

A low, gutteral moan

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

Consolidation of authority

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Annihilation
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

An internal brightness

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?

Linguist

Surveyor

Psychologist

Anthropologist

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