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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rheya believe she was created to do?
(a) study Kelvin's reactions
(b) study Kelvin's physical form
(c) torture Kelvin
(d) make Kelvin insane

2. What experiment does Snow suggest to Kelvin?
(a) to send Rheya up into space alone before going up with her
(b) to check what's happened to the first duplicate Rheya in orbit around Solaris
(c) to send Rheya out onto the surface of Solaris
(d) to take one of the other visitors away with him in the shuttle

3. What happens to Rheya after she tries to kill herself?
(a) She dies and another Rheya appears.
(b) She disappears and another Rheya appears.
(c) She regenerates and loses her memory.
(d) She regenerates and is not harmed.

4. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about her blood?
(a) It is like his own.
(b) It does not last outside her body.
(c) It is formless at a microscopic level.
(d) It is strange at a subatomic level.

5. What experiment does Snow want Kelvin to perform?
(a) an experiment to communicate with Solaris
(b) an experiment to permanently confine the visitors
(c) an experiment to secure the station against emanations from Solaris
(d) an experiment to destabilize the visitors at a subatomic level

6. What does Snow say might happen if Kelvin leaves with Rheya?
(a) Rheya will disintegrate.
(b) Rheya will disappear and reappear on the station.
(c) Rheya will come to despise him.
(d) Rheya will turn violent.

7. How does Rheya try to kill herself?
(a) walking out into space unprotected
(b) cutting her own throat
(c) shooting herself
(d) swallowing liquid oxygen

8. What kind of god does Kelvin ask Snow if he's ever heard of?
(a) a malevalent god
(b) an imperfect god
(c) an unconscious god
(d) a blind god

9. What does the ocean do when it laps up against humans?
(a) It avoids contact with human forms.
(b) It sticks to human forms.
(c) It begins to meld with human forms.
(d) It engulfs human bodies.

10. Who is the first person Kelvin thinks of during the brainwave recording?
(a) Sartorius
(b) Rheya
(c) Snow
(d) himself

11. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?
(a) locks Sartorius away
(b) ejects his visitor in a shuttle
(c) covers his visitor's face
(d) locks his visitor in a room

12. What is Kelvin's mood following the experiment?
(a) angry and agitated
(b) depressed and withdrawn
(c) elated and manic
(d) apprehensive and disconnected

13. What does Snow give to Kelvin?
(a) a tape recording from Rheya
(b) a piece of Rheya's dress
(c) a piece of jewelry from Rheya
(d) a suicide note from Rheya

14. What does Kelvin suddenly decide to do?
(a) seal himself away from the station's windows
(b) take a shuttle into orbit
(c) take a helicopter to visit the formation
(d) bombard the formation with radiation

15. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?
(a) Communication with the ocean will cause more hostile behavior.
(b) Submerging anything in the ocean will be interpretted as aggression.
(c) A neutrino disruptor could create an explosion.
(d) All their ideas will be ineffective.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin overhear Rheya do in the middle of the night?

2. What makes Rheya nervous about Snow?

3. What is the common perception of Solaris during the first period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?

4. Why does Rheya try to kill herself?

5. How long do asymmetriads last?

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