Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Ten

Two

Three

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

Positive reinforcement

Hypnosis

Pavlovian signalling

Bribery
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?

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 set of elementary compasses

Fuji film cameras

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 should hike to the border and await extraction

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

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

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

A thousand

Only one

At least six

About ten
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "

To break you

To infiltrate you

To habituate you

To colonize 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 lighthouse

The border

The abandoned fishing town

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

It tunnels into the ground

It is a silo

It looks more like a house

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

Only superiors should be contacted

It is NOT to be attempted

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

By an omniscient narrator

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

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?

Linguist

Psychologist

Medic

Chemist
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 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
16 What is the biologist's specialty?

Transitional environments

Fruiting bodies

Transitional biomes

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

Biologist

Psychologist

Anthropologist

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

Nautilus shells

A coral reef

A salt cave

A snail's shell
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?

A mutated bear

A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese

A crocodile
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

The anthropologist retreats in fear

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?

A transmission from Area X

A low, gutteral moan

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

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?

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

An internal brightness

Heightened senses

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

Anthropologist

Surveyor

Biologist

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

Psychologist

Surveyor

Linguist

Anthropologist

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