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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the biologists at first consider Solaris' ocean?
(a) a disembodied neural system
(b) an advanced life form
(c) a prebiological cell
(d) inorganic

2. Who led the first expedition to land on Solaris?
(a) Gibarian
(b) Ottenskjöld
(c) Shannahan
(d) Fechner

3. What makes Solaris's orbit stable?
(a) its sister planet
(b) its ocean
(c) its dual suns
(d) its unique core

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

5. How does Kelvin know his way around the space station?
(a) He spent three years on a similar station around another planet.
(b) He spent six weeks in a replica of it on Earth.
(c) He helped design and build the prototype station.
(d) He trained in a holographic replica on the trip to the station.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Kelvin look for in the library?

3. Why does Kelvin think the warning is strange?

4. What book can't Kelvin find in Gibarian's room?

5. In Gibarian's room, what does Kelvin discover the scientists have been directing at the ocean?

(see the answer key)

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