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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Solarists.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who greets Kelvin when he first lands on Station Solaris?
(a) Snow
(b) Gibarian
(c) no one
(d) Sartorius

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

5. Where are most of the rocky islands of Solaris located?
(a) at the extreme south pole
(b) at the extreme north pole
(c) in the southern hemisphere
(d) in the northern hemisphere

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kelvin recognize Snow?

2. Who is the first person Kelvin meets on the research station?

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

4. What does Snow have on his hands?

5. What is the condition of the research station when Kelvin arrives?

(see the answer key)

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