Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Ten

Thirty

Three
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 decade

A few weeks

Two years

Six months
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
Fuji film cameras

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

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

A set of elementary compasses
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They have thirty minutes to get to a "safe place"

They should hike to the border and await extraction

They should submit to hypnosis

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
Only one

A thousand

About ten

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

To colonize you

To infiltrate you

To habituate 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 tower

The abandoned fishing town

The border

The lighthouse
11 What is strange about the biologist's opinion that the unmapped structure is a tower?
It looks more like a house

It is made of wood, not stone

It is a silo

It tunnels into the ground
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?
It is NOT to be attempted

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only superiors should be contacted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In a series of interviews after re-entry

In an old dictaphone

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

By an omniscient narrator
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Psychologist

Medic

Linguist

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

She seemed unqualified, even in her own field
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Fruiting bodies

Transitional biomes

Genetic mutation

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

Psychologist

Biologist

Anthropologist
18 What natural structure does the biologist compare the interior of the tower to?
Nautilus shells

A coral reef

A snail's shell

A salt cave
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated bear

A mutated wild boar

A crocodile

A flock of violent geese
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?
A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

The anthropologist retreats in fear

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

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Alacazam

Annihilation
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?
Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Allergies

Heightened senses

An internal brightness
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?
Surveyor

Psychologist

Linguist

Anthropologist

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