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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the first person Kelvin meets on the research station?
(a) Snow
(b) Gibarian
(c) Sartorius
(d) Rheya

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

3. Whose expedition was Berton on?
(a) Ottenskjöld's
(b) Shannahan's
(c) Gibarian's
(d) Fechner's

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

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

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

7. What does Kelvin find in his pocket?
(a) a note from Gibarian
(b) the key to his aparment on Earth
(c) a crushed cigarette
(d) a ring he once gave to Rheya

8. How long did it take for spacecraft to visit Solaris after its discovery?
(a) 5 years
(b) 100 years
(c) 45 years
(d) 30 days

9. What does Rheya feel compelled to do?
(a) go to Solaris's ocean
(b) talk to Kelvin constantly
(c) stay nearby Kelvin
(d) keep Solaris's ocean in sight

10. What strange formation does Berton first see in Solaris' ocean?
(a) a mountain
(b) a solar system
(c) a city
(d) a garden

11. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at the molecular level?
(a) It looks normal.
(b) The molecules are too precise.
(c) The blood has no molecules.
(d) The molecules are irregular.

12. What does Kelvin see on Rheya's arm?
(a) a birthmark
(b) a scar from a razor cut
(c) an engraved bracelet
(d) a mark from a hypodermic needle

13. Where does the second version of Rheya appear?
(a) She is on Kelvin's bed.
(b) She is in Kelvin's restroom.
(c) She is in Kelvin's closet.
(d) She is outside Kelvin's door.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at a subatomic level?

2. Who does Kelvin see in the hall on the way to his appointment with Snow?

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

4. How does Kelvin recognize Snow?

5. What does Kelvin think of Berton's account?

(see the answer keys)

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