Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Thirty

Three

Two
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

Six months' worth

One years' worth

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

A decade

Two years

A few weeks
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
A set of elementary compasses

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

A black box with a red lens that glows red in the presence of danger

Fuji film cameras
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

They should hike to the border and await extraction

They should submit to hypnosis

They have thirty minutes to get to a "safe place"
7 How many varieties of venomous snake are they told live in Area X?
Only one

A thousand

About ten

At least six
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 months

Four days

A year

A week
10 What element of Area X wasn't represented in the maps?
The border

The tower

The abandoned fishing town

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 a silo

It tunnels into the ground

It is made of wood, not stone
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 the psychologist can attempt outside contact

Only superiors should be contacted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
In an old dictaphone

In a waterproof journal issued by Southern Reach

In a series of interviews after re-entry

By an omniscient narrator
14 What is the profession of the fifth explorer who never crossed the border?
Chemist

Psychologist

Linguist

Medic
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

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
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Fruiting bodies

Transitional biomes

Genetic mutation

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

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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

A coral reef

A snail's shell

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

A mutated wild boar

A crocodile

A mutated bear
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?
The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

The rustling of leaves and grass

A low, gutteral moan

A transmission from Area X
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?
An internal brightness

Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Heightened senses

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

Anthropologist

Biologist

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

Anthropologist

Surveyor

Psychologist

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