Annihilation Quizzes

Annihilation Quiz #1

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

Three

Thirty

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

Bribery

Pavlovian signalling

Positive reinforcement
3 How much supplies did the twelfth expedition bring into Area X?
A decade's worth

Two years' worth

One years' worth

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

A few weeks

Six months

Two years
5 What does the biologist describe as their "most outlandish equipment"?
A black box with a red lens that glows red in the presence of danger

A crate of cotton candy-flavored MREs

Fuji film cameras

A set of elementary compasses
6 What was the protocol if their mysterious instrument glowed red?
They should submit to hypnosis

They have an hour to retreat to an underground location

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?
At least six

Only one

About ten

A thousand
8 The biologist says that "desolation tries ... "
To infiltrate you

To colonize you

To break you

To habituate you
9 How long does it take after reaching base camp for the explorers to find the tower?
A week

Four months

Four days

A year
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 tunnels into the ground

It is a silo

It is made of wood, not stone

It looks more like a house
12 What is the Southern Reach's policy on outside contact during an expedition?
Only the psychologist can attempt outside contact

It is NOT to be attempted

Explorers must submit reports of findings and progress every night

Only superiors should be contacted
13 How is the narrative being taken down?
By an omniscient narrator

In an old dictaphone

In a series of interviews after re-entry

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

Psychologist

Chemist

Linguist
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 seemed unqualified, even in her own field

Linguistics seems, at the time, the least essential specialty

She was the least liked member of the group, on a personal level
16 What is the biologist's specialty?
Genetic mutation

Fruiting bodies

Transitional biomes

Transitional environments
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 snail's shell

Nautilus shells

A salt cave

A coral reef
19 What is the first threatening animal the group encounters?
A mutated bear

A crocodile

A mutated wild boar

A flock of violent geese
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 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?
A low, gutteral moan

The thrum of crickets and frogs from the marsh

A transmission from Area X

The rustling of leaves and grass
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?
Immunity to hypnotic suggestion

Allergies

An internal brightness

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

Anthropologist

Psychologist

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

Surveyor

Psychologist

Linguist

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