Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Ten

Two

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

Pavlovian signalling

Positive reinforcement

Hypnosis
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?
A decade's worth

Six months' worth

One years' worth

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

A decade

A few weeks

Two years
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

Fuji film cameras

A set of elementary compasses

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 should submit to hypnosis

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?
Only one

At least six

A thousand

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

To colonize you

To habituate you

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

A week

Four months

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

The abandoned fishing town

The tower

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?
Only superiors should be contacted

It is NOT to be attempted

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

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

By an omniscient narrator

In a series of interviews after re-entry

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Chemist

Psychologist

Linguist

Medic
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 had previously expressed doubts about the expedition

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

Genetic mutation

Transitional environments

Transitional biomes
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 salt cave

A coral reef

A snail's shell

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

A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese

A mutated wild boar
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 biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

The anthropologist retreats in fear
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?
A low, gutteral moan

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A transmission from Area X

The rustling of leaves and grass
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?
Annihilation

Consolidation of authority

Alacazam

Paralysis is not a cogent agent
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?
Heightened senses

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Allergies

An internal brightness
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?
Anthropologist

Psychologist

Surveyor

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

Linguist

Psychologist

Anthropologist

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