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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When was Solaris first discovered?
(a) ten years ago
(b) the previous year
(c) a thousand years before Kelvin's birth
(d) a hundred years before Kelvin's birth

2. What does Kelvin do when he hears someone coming down the hall while he's in Gibarian's room?
(a) He leaves his room by a second exit.
(b) He goes outside to see who is there.
(c) He holds the door handle so it can't be opened.
(d) He calls out to ask who's out there.

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

4. What will the next Rheya remember about the first visit?
(a) vague, dreamlike flashes
(b) everything
(c) only the beginning
(d) nothing

5. What can symmetriads contain?
(a) physical representations of logical reasoning
(b) impossible physical forms that break laws of nature
(c) geometric illustrations of new types of pure math
(d) geometric illustrations of principles of physics

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?

2. What does Snow say their situation is beyond?

3. What does Kelvin arm himself with?

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

5. Who greets Kelvin when he first lands on Station Solaris?

(see the answer key)

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