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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the physicists at first consider Solaris' ocean?
(a) a quasiorganic organism
(b) a complex plasmic mechanism
(c) a photopsychic form
(d) a pseudoorganic form

2. What does Kelvin notice about Rheya's foot?
(a) It is rough and hardened.
(b) It is malformed.
(c) It is smooth and uncalloused.
(d) It has no wrinkles or toe prints.

3. Who does Kelvin see by Gibarian's body?
(a) Sartorius
(b) a small barefoot child
(c) Snow
(d) a large black woman

4. Who is inside Kelvin's cabin when he first enters it?
(a) Snow
(b) Gibarian
(c) Sartorius
(d) no one

5. How did Rheya die?
(a) an accident
(b) murder
(c) suicide
(d) a heart attack

6. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at the molecular level?
(a) The molecules are too precise.
(b) It looks normal.
(c) The blood has no molecules.
(d) The molecules are irregular.

7. How old does Rheya appear?
(a) thirty-nine
(b) twenty-nine
(c) forty-nine
(d) nineteen

8. What is the condition of the research station when Kelvin arrives?
(a) The station is completely empty and unsupplied.
(b) The station is without power and breaking down.
(c) The station is crawling with bugs.
(d) The station is disorderly and dirty.

9. Where is Gibarian?
(a) on a shuttlepod
(b) locked in a lab
(c) dead
(d) in the ocean

10. Whose expedition was Berton on?
(a) Shannahan's
(b) Gibarian's
(c) Ottenskjöld's
(d) Fechner's

11. What does Kelvin hear from inside Sartorius' lab?
(a) the sound of breaking glass
(b) the sound of a child running
(c) sounds of sobbing
(d) the sound of scraping furniture

12. What is Kelvin's prior relationship with Gibarian?
(a) Gibarian and Kelvin were rivals who disliked each other.
(b) Kelvin has never met Gibarian but read all his work.
(c) Kelvin has never met Gibarian but corresponded with him.
(d) Gibarian is an old friend of Kelvin.

13. When does Sartorius plan on joining Snow and Kelvin?
(a) after dark
(b) in an hour
(c) never
(d) the next day

14. What does Kelvin do after he showers and changes?
(a) He reads.
(b) He takes a nap.
(c) He goes to look for Snow.
(d) He goes to look for Sartorius.

15. What does Snow do when Kelvin asks about Gibarian?
(a) faints
(b) laughs
(c) cries
(d) screams

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin arm himself with?

2. What strange formation does Berton first see in Solaris' ocean?

3. Who is in Gibarian's room when Kelvin arrives?

4. What happens to Kelvin's arm?

5. Who led the first expedition to land on Solaris?

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