Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Thirty

Three

Ten

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

Hypnosis

Pavlovian signalling

Positive reinforcement

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

A decade's worth

Two years' worth

Six months' worth

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

A few weeks

A decade

Six months

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

Fuji film cameras

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
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 should hike to the border and await extraction

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

A year

A week

Four months
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 is made of wood, not stone

It looks more like a house

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

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 a series of interviews after re-entry

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

By an omniscient narrator

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

Medic

Psychologist

Linguist

Chemist
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 was the least liked member of the group, on a personal level

She seemed unqualified, even in her own field

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty
16 What is the biologist's specialty?

Transitional biomes

Fruiting bodies

Genetic mutation

Transitional environments
17 Which member of the expedition opposes searching the tower before mapping the rest of the Area?

Psychologist

Anthropologist

Biologist

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

A coral reef

A snail's shell

Nautilus shells

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

A flock of violent geese

A mutated bear

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar
20 What happens when the biologist is initially inspecting the writing on the tower wall?

A creature from below attacks the expedition party

The biologist scrapes a sample off the wall

A nodule bursts on the spores and she inhales the contents

The anthropologist retreats in fear
21 What do the explorers hear every night at sundown?

A low, gutteral moan

A transmission from Area X

The rustling of leaves and grass

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

Annihilation

Paralysis is not a cogent agent

Alacazam

Consolidation of authority
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?

Biologist

Psychologist

Anthropologist

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

Surveyor

Psychologist

Linguist

Anthropologist

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