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?
Hypnosis

Positive reinforcement

Bribery

Pavlovian signalling
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?
Six months' worth

A decade's worth

One years' worth

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

Six months

Two years

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

A set of elementary compasses

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

Fuji film cameras
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They should hike to the border and await extraction

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
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 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

Four days

A year

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

The tower

The lighthouse

The abandoned fishing town
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 tunnels into the ground

It is a silo
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?
Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

Only superiors should be contacted

It is NOT to be attempted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In an old dictaphone

By an omniscient narrator

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

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

Linguist

Psychologist

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

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty
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?
A snail's shell

A salt cave

A coral reef

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

A flock of violent geese

A mutated bear

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

The anthropologist retreats in fear

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A creature from below attacks the expedition party
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?
A low, gutteral moan

The rustling of leaves and grass

A transmission from Area X

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?
Annihilation

Consolidation of authority

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Alacazam
23 What is the first symptom of the spore from the tower?
An internal brightness

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Allergies

Heightened senses
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?
Biologist

Anthropologist

Surveyor

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

Psychologist

Anthropologist

Linguist

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