The "Mass Effect 3" Story Trivia Quiz

Answer: Captain Anderson

Shepard was grounded and under house arrest for the events that happened in "Arrival", a "Mass Effect 2" downloadable content. Shepard was escorted to a hearing by James Vega, and on the way met Admiral Anderson and whichever Alliance marine survived the events in "Mass Effect" (Kaidan Alenko or Ashley Williams). Only Anderson went into the hearing with Shepard. During the hearing with the defense committee, the Reapers landed on Earth en masse, and the invasion began.

Anderson and Shepard made their way through Vancouver to get to the Normandy. Once there, Anderson reinstated Shepard, and ordered the Commander to rally the galaxy against the Reapers. Anderson himself decided to stay behind to coordinate the resistance movements.

James and Ashley or Kaidain were Shepard's squadmates for the first time on Mars (in "Mass Effect 3").

Answer: Liara T'Soni

Mars was home to a large Prothean dig site. It was the discovery of these ruins that jumped humanity's technology to allow interstellar travel. Dr. Liara T'Soni, a Prothean archaeologist, was asked by the humans to help them study the wealth of information stored there.

While leaving Earth, Admiral Hackett contacted the Normandy, and told Shepard to check out Mars, where possible plans for a Prothean super-weapon had recently been found. When Shepard and squad arrived, they found Cerberus troops killing the local scientists.

Garrus, Mordin, and Tali were all met later, provided they survived "Mass Effect 2". Garrus showed up on Menae, Mordin on Sur'Kesh, and Tali during the resolution of the quarian-geth conflict.

Answer: Cerberus

The krogan were willing to work with the turians provided old wrongs were righted. In particular, they wanted a cure for the genophage. Work on curing the genophage was seen in both "Mass Effect" and "Mass Effect 2", and the data still existed. A handful of krogan females were cured of the genophage, but only one survived. She was being held in a salarian STG base on the salarian homeworld, Sur'kesh.

Shepard went to Sur'kesh to retrieve the female so a cure could by synthesized from her tissues. During the extraction, though, Cerberus attacked the base and tried to kill the female krogan.

Answer: Eve

Mordin Solus, or if he did not survive "Mass Effect 2", Padok Wiks, was the krogan's inside source concerning the genophage cure. Because the female krogan refused to divulge her name to anyone, she was temporarily named Eve, in honor of the first woman according to the human Abrahamic religions. If Eve survived the events on Tuchanka, she told Shepard her true name, Urdnot Bakara.

Answer: A giant thresher maw

Shepard and company were making their way to the Shroud facility on Tuchanka. At the Shroud, they would be able to spread the genophage cure across the planet. During the trip there, though, the convoy came under attack, and Shepard had to go through some old krogan ruins. While in the ruins, Eve told Shepard that Kalros, the mother of all thresher maws, lived in the area.

On Tuchanka, the thresher maws were summoned by large structures called keystones. Two large keystones were built to summon Kalros, and the Shroud facility was built nearby to prevent the krogan from idly wandering in.

The Shroud was guarded by a Reaper, and Eve hatched an idea to bring it down. She got Shepard to activate the giant keystones to summon Kalros. The Reaper and Kalros fought each other in an epic fight that ended with the Reaper being crushed and buried.

Answer: Kai Leng

Kai Leng first appeared in the novel "Mass Effect: Deception", in which he was sent to recover a former Cerberus agent, Paul Grayson.

In "Mass Effect 3", he was a very strong opponent of Shepard's, using tech attacks, tactical cloak, and a sword.

Kai Leng led a Cerberus attack on the Citadel in order to kill the Citadel Council. Shepard thwarted Kai Leng's attack, but the Cerberus agent got away. Shepard later saw Kai Leng on Thessia.

Gavin Archer was the head of Project Overlord, a Cerberus attempt to control the geth. Shepard met Dr. Archer in the "Overlord" downloadable content for "Mass Effect 2". Dr. Archer later fled Cerberus, and joined Dr. Brynn Cole's group on Gellix.

Eva Coré was the false name of the AI Cerberus agent posing as a scientist on Mars. She was responsible for letting Cerberus into the facility, killed many scientists, and nearly killed Ashley or Kaidan. Eva's body was brought onto the Normandy, and EDI managed to take it for her own.

Answer: The geth allied themselves with the Reapers.

The quarians armed all the ships in their fleet and launched a war against the geth to retake their homeworld, Rannoch. The geth, in their desperation, turned to the Reapers for help. The Reapers greatly augmented the geth's fighting ability and processing power, but at the cost of free will.

The geth were willing to work with Shepard to regain their self-control and a solution to the conflict that ensured geth survival. If the geth survived the events on Rannoch, they used the Reaper code to turn every geth program into a true AI, while retaining self-determination.

Answer: A Prothean beacon

The statue of Athame looked very similar to a Prothean, indicating that the deity of the old religion was not actually a god, but a Prothean who taught the asari mathematics, science, and agriculture. This Prothean influence explained why the asari were able to advance so quickly so long ago. Having the knowledge stored in the Prothean beacon also kept the asari technologically more advanced than the other species of the galaxy.

Shepard was told to go to the Temple of Athame by the asari councilor. Shepard traveled to the beacon to finally figure out what the Catalyst was, but was stopped by Kai Leng, who made off with the embedded VI.

Answer: Reaper control and indoctrination

Despite the Reapers invading the galaxy and destroying all spacefaring life, the Illusive Man still saw them as an opportunity. He wanted to control the Reapers and use them as tools to secure humanity's dominance in the galaxy.

On the planet Horizon, a refugee camp was set up. In secret, it was run by Cerberus, and the refugees were used as test subjects by the scientists studying indoctrination. Many were turned into husks or other terrifying Reaper creatures. The facility was run by Miranda's father, Henry Lawson.

Answer: London

The Reapers had gathered in London, and the Citadel was placed directly above it, in orbit. The final mission in "Mass Effect 3" took place in the war-torn, Reaper-infested streets of London.

Admiral Anderson commented that he was born in London, and would likely die there as well.

Vancouver was where the story of "Mass Effect 3" began. Rio de Janeiro was not seen in the single player campaign, but was featured in the "Earth" downloadable content for "Mass Effect 3" multiplayer. Rio was where Alliance special forces recruits were initially trained. Mombasa was not featured in the "Mass Effect" trilogy, but it was the landing site on Earth by Covenant forces in the 2004 video game "Halo 2".