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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Monsters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rheya remember about the time while Kelvin was in the bathroom?
(a) hurting her hands and screaming
(b) passing out on the floor
(c) being alone and feeling frightened
(d) feeling angry and enraged

2. How long did it take for spacecraft to visit Solaris after its discovery?
(a) 5 years
(b) 30 days
(c) 100 years
(d) 45 years

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

4. How does Kelvin introduce Rheya?
(a) as his girlfriend
(b) as a coworker
(c) as his wife
(d) as a friend

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who led the first preliminary study of Solaris, one which did not land on the surface?

2. Before the discovery of Solaris, why did scientists think a planet like Solaris could never contain life?

3. How long does Kelvin tell Rheya they will stay on the station?

4. What did the physicists at first consider Solaris' ocean?

5. How does Kelvin know his way around the space station?

(see the answer key)

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