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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, Conversation.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does Kelvin lock Rheya?
(a) in a locker
(b) in the shuttle
(c) in the laboratory
(d) in a closet

2. Where does Snow say the visitor Kelvin saw comes from?
(a) Snow says the visitor comes from Sartorius.
(b) Snow says he doesn't know.
(c) Snow says the visitor comes from Solaris.
(d) Snow says the visitor comes from the stars.

3. What did the physicists at first consider Solaris' ocean?
(a) a complex plasmic mechanism
(b) a photopsychic form
(c) a pseudoorganic form
(d) a quasiorganic organism

4. What does Dr. Messenger think that Berton saw?
(a) The ocean creating composite images from the scientists' minds.
(b) The ocean mimicking objects and images from the spaceships.
(c) The ocean recreating images from Berton's mind.
(d) The ocean recreating images from the mind of a dead scientist.

5. What happens if a visitor is injured?
(a) It disintegrates.
(b) It remains injured.
(c) It regenerates.
(d) It vanishes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What giant human form does Berton see imitated by Solaris' ocean?

2. What does Kelvin try to convince Rheya of, after she tries to kill herself?

3. What does Kelvin notice about Rheya's foot?

4. What does Kelvin find underlined in a book?

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

(see the answer key)

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