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

Multiple Choice Questions

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(b) depressed and withdrawn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

2. What is the common perception of Solaris during the first period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
(a) that the ocean is completely inanimate
(b) that the ocean is a lifeless chemical form
(c) that the ocean is alien to the galaxy
(d) that the ocean is a complex biological creature

3. What does Rheya give Kelvin before he goes to sleep after he asks what she's doing in the night?
(a) bitter-tasting juice
(b) chalky seeming milk
(c) potent wine
(d) strangely colored water

4. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she looks like the first Rheya.
(a) He says she looks exactly like Rheya.
(b) He says she looks more and more unlike Rheya.
(c) He says she looks subtly different than Rheya.
(d) He says she did at first, but now he doesn't know.

5. When does Snow say that the visitors first appeared?
(a) after an explosion in Solaris's ocean depths
(b) after the scientists performed X-ray experiments
(c) after an explosion near the surface of Solaris
(d) after the scientists performed microwave experiments

6. What does Snow offer to give Kelvin?
(a) some work cleaning the station
(b) some work constructing a computer
(c) some calculations to do
(d) a puzzle to solve

7. Why is Kelvin uncertain about participating in Sartorius' experiment?
(a) He is afraid that Solaris will affect his mind.
(b) He is afraid that he will unconsciously wish Rheya away.
(c) He is afraid the scientists will use the experiment to destroy Rheya.
(d) He is afraid the experiment will not work.

8. Who is the second person Kelvin thinks of during the brainwave recording?
(a) Shannahan
(b) Gibarian
(c) Giese
(d) Berton

9. What does Kelvin overhear Rheya do in the middle of the night?
(a) talk to someone in the hall
(b) whisper at the window to the ocean
(c) cry in the corner of the room
(d) wrap a package in paper

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

11. What do Rheya and Kelvin spend their time talking about?
(a) whether to leave the ship
(b) what has happened to Sartorius
(c) their future on Earth
(d) how to destroy Solaris

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

13. Does Kelvin want Snow's plan to stop the visitors to succeed?
(a) Yes, he wants to destroy all the visitors.
(b) No, he wants to save Rheya.
(c) No, he wants to save all the visitors.
(d) Yes, but he only wants to use it for Snow and Sartorius's visitors.

14. What does Snow do the first time Kelvin sees him after the experiment?
(a) He stumbles into the kitchen and collapses on the floor.
(b) He walks into the kitchen area and falls asleep in a chair.
(c) He opens a can of meat and starts gobbling it down.
(d) He mutters to himself, completely ignoring Kelvin and Rheya.

15. What is the common perception of Solaris during the second period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
(a) that the ocean is alien to the galaxy
(b) that the ocean is a lifeless chemical form
(c) that the ocean is a complex biological creature
(d) that the ocean is completely inanimate

Short Answer Questions

1. What can symmetriads contain?

2. What happens to Rheya after she tries to kill herself?

3. What experiment does Sartorius want to perform?

4. What does Rheya believe she was created to do?

5. Why does Kelvin make his argument?

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