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

2. What does Sartorius ask Kelvin to think about during the electroencephalogram?
(a) images from his childhood
(b) his innermost conflicts
(c) mankind's rich scientific history
(d) a wish to make the visitors disappear

3. What happens the following night?
(a) The ocean becomes phosphorescent.
(b) The ocean's surface becomes hard and calcified.
(c) The ocean becomes deep green.
(d) The ocean level drops steeply

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

5. How long will it take to receive a reply from Earth?
(a) months
(b) years
(c) days
(d) hours

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow hypothesize is necessary for the visitors to survive?

2. What does the ocean do when it laps up against humans?

3. What does Kelvin do when Snow gives him a drink?

4. What does Kelvin see about the formation, when he gets near it?

5. How does Kelvin react to his strange dreams?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Snow's response to Sartorius' new experiment?

2. What does Rheya say in her suicide note?

3. Describe Sartorius' speech to Kelvin before the experiment.

4. What reason does Kelvin give for wanting to go off the station?

5. How does Rheya sign her suicide note?

6. Why doesn't Kelvin want to open a communications channel to the shuttle he launched?

7. What reasons does Kelvin have not to tell Rheya what she wants to know?

8. Why does Kelvin go to the library?

9. Why does Rheya lie to Kelvin about what she did during the night?

10. Why does Kelvin say he doesn't want Rheya to overhear his conversation?

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