Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Three

Two

Thirty
2 How did the psychologist ensure that every member of the expedition crossed the border without issue?
Hypnosis

Positive reinforcement

Pavlovian signalling

Bribery
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?
One years' worth

A decade's worth

Two years' worth

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

Two years

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 have an hour to retreat to an underground location

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

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?
At least six

Only one

A thousand

About ten
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "
To infiltrate you

To colonize you

To break you

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

Four months

A week

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

The border

The abandoned fishing town

The lighthouse
11 What is strange about the biologist's opinion that the unmapped structure is a tower?
It is made of wood, not stone

It looks more like a house

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

Only superiors should be contacted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

By an omniscient narrator

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?
Medic

Linguist

Chemist

Psychologist
15 Why is there a sense of relief at the fact that it was the linguist, specifically, who stayed behind?
She was the least liked member of the group, on a personal level

She had previously expressed doubts about the expedition

She seemed unqualified, even in her own field

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

Genetic mutation

Fruiting bodies

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

Anthropologist

Surveyor

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

Nautilus shells

A snail's shell

A coral reef
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated bear

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese
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 rustling of leaves and grass

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A transmission from Area X

A low, gutteral moan
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?
Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Annihilation

Alacazam

Consolidation of authority
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?
Heightened senses

Allergies

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

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?
Psychologist

Anthropologist

Linguist

Surveyor

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