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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Solaris first discovered?
(a) the previous year
(b) a thousand years before Kelvin's birth
(c) ten years ago
(d) a hundred years before Kelvin's birth

2. What does Kelvin do when he hears someone coming down the hall while he's in Gibarian's room?
(a) He calls out to ask who's out there.
(b) He goes outside to see who is there.
(c) He leaves his room by a second exit.
(d) He holds the door handle so it can't be opened.

3. How does Kelvin explain the gaps in Rheya's memory to her?
(a) He says she's been sick.
(b) He says she's had a concussion.
(c) He says she's not who she thinks she is.
(d) He doesn't explain.

4. Who was the first scientist to have a visitor?
(a) Sartorius
(b) Gibarian
(c) Snow
(d) Shannahan

5. What is Kelvin looking at when he suddenly, intensely feels he's being watched?
(a) a plan of the research station
(b) a map of Solaris
(c) a photograph of the binary suns
(d) a model of a form created by Solaris's ocean

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the biologists at first consider Solaris' ocean?

2. What does Snow say about Gibarian's mental condition?

3. What does Kelvin propose that the visitors are made of?

4. Where has Snow put Gibarian's body?

5. What does Snow warn Kelvin to do if he meets a stranger?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kelvin blame himself for Rheya's death?

2. Why do Sartorius, Snow, and Kelvin cover the cameras on their videophones?

3. Why does Snow say the Polytherian forms are so dangerous?

4. How punctual does Kelvin say he is?

5. What is Kelvin wearing when he arrives on the research station?

6. What is Gibarian's reaction to the eerie sound of footsteps echoing through the station?

7. Why does Kelvin launch the shuttle?

8. Why aren't Berton's experiences related in the Supplement that Gibarian's note directs Kelvin to?

9. Describe the change in light between a red-sun day and a blue-sun day on Solaris.

10. What aspect of clothing does Rheya have in common with the apparition Kelvin saw enter Gibarian's room?

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