Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Two

Ten

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

Positive reinforcement

Pavlovian signalling

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

One years' worth

Two years' worth

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

A few weeks

Six months

A decade
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
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

Fuji film cameras
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 should hike to the border and await extraction

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

About ten

A thousand

Only one
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "
To colonize you

To infiltrate you

To habituate you

To break you
9 How long does it take after reaching base camp for the explorers to find the tower?
A week

A year

Four days

Four months
10 What element of Area X wasn't represented in the maps?
The abandoned fishing town

The tower

The border

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

It is made of wood, not stone

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?
It is NOT to be attempted

Only superiors should be contacted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In an old dictaphone

In a series of interviews after re-entry

By an omniscient narrator

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

Medic

Chemist

Linguist
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

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

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

Fruiting bodies

Transitional environments

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

Biologist

Anthropologist

Psychologist
18 What natural structure does the biologist compare the interior of the tower to?
A coral reef

A salt cave

A snail's shell

Nautilus shells
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese

A crocodile

A mutated bear
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?
The biologist scrapes a sample off the 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
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?
Alacazam

Consolidation of authority

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

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

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

An internal brightness

Allergies
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?
Psychologist

Biologist

Anthropologist

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

Surveyor

Linguist

Psychologist

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