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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Sartorius.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where is Gibarian?
(a) locked in a lab
(b) in the ocean
(c) on a shuttlepod
(d) dead

2. What is the condition of the skin on Snow's face?
(a) red and raw
(b) sunburned
(c) deathly pale
(d) wrinkled and dry

3. What can Kelvin see from the window of his quarters?
(a) the ocean of Solaris
(b) the lower floor of the research station
(c) the stars in space
(d) nothing

4. Whose voice speaks to Kelvin in the capsule to prepare him for landing?
(a) automated machinery
(b) Snow
(c) Sartorius
(d) Gibarian

5. Whose expedition was Berton on?
(a) Fechner's
(b) Shannahan's
(c) Gibarian's
(d) Ottenskjöld's

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin find underlined in a book?

2. What does Kelvin do after he showers and changes?

3. What is Kelvin's prior relationship with Gibarian?

4. Where does Snow say the visitor Kelvin saw comes from?

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

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