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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In whose handwriting is the envelope Kelvin finds addressed?
(a) Sartorius's
(b) Rheya's
(c) Snow's
(d) Gibarian's

3. What is Kelvin's prior relationship with Gibarian?
(a) Gibarian and Kelvin were rivals who disliked each other.
(b) Kelvin has never met Gibarian but corresponded with him.
(c) Kelvin has never met Gibarian but read all his work.
(d) Gibarian is an old friend of Kelvin.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What nickname does Snow ask Kelvin to call him?

3. What is the name of the space ship Kelvin takes from Earth to Solaris?

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

5. Whose expedition was Berton on?

(see the answer key)

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