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?

Pavlovian signalling

Hypnosis

Bribery

Positive reinforcement
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?

One years' worth

Two years' worth

A decade's worth

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

Two years

A decade

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

Fuji film cameras

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

They should submit to hypnosis

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

They should hike to the border and await extraction
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?

About ten

Only one

At least six

A thousand
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?

A week

Four months

A year

Four days
10 What element of Area X wasn't represented in the maps?

The abandoned fishing town

The border

The tower

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 is made of wood, not stone

It is a silo

It tunnels into the ground
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

It is NOT to be attempted

Only superiors should be contacted

Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact
13 How is the narrative being taken down?

In a series of interviews after re-entry

By an omniscient narrator

In an old dictaphone

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

Medic

Chemist

Linguist

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

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

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
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?

Surveyor

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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

Nautilus shells

A snail's shell

A coral reef

A salt cave
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar

A mutated bear

A flock of violent geese
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?

The anthropologist retreats in fear

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A transmission from Area X

The rustling of leaves and grass

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

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Annihilation

Consolidation of authority

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

Heightened senses

An internal brightness

Allergies

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

Surveyor

Psychologist

Biologist

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

Anthropologist

Psychologist

Linguist

Surveyor

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