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?
Bribery

Hypnosis

Pavlovian signalling

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

One years' worth

Two years' worth

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

A few weeks

A decade

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

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

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

They should hike to the border and await extraction

They should submit to hypnosis
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
At least six

A thousand

Only one

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

To habituate you

To infiltrate you

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

A year

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 tunnels into the ground

It is a silo

It is made of wood, not stone
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?
Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

It is NOT to be attempted

Only superiors should be contacted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

By an omniscient narrator

In a series of interviews after re-entry

In an old dictaphone
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Chemist

Medic

Linguist

Psychologist
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

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
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Transitional biomes

Genetic mutation

Transitional environments

Fruiting bodies
17 Which member of the expedition opposes searching the tower before mapping the rest of the Area?
Surveyor

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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

A snail's shell

A coral reef

Nautilus shells
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A flock of violent geese

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar

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

The anthropologist retreats in fear

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

A creature from below attacks the expedition party
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?
The rustling of leaves and grass

A transmission from Area X

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A low, gutteral moan
22 What hypnotic incantation causes the surveyor and anthropologist to go slack?
Alacazam

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Annihilation

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

Heightened senses

An internal brightness

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion
24 Who is the first to inquire about the materiality of the words on the tower wall?
Surveyor

Biologist

Psychologist

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

Linguist

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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