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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the matter with Rheya's clothes?
(a) The cloth is supernaturally strong.
(b) They don't fit correctly.
(c) They seem grown onto her skin.
(d) They have no zipper or buttons.

2. Who does Kelvin see by Gibarian's body?
(a) Snow
(b) a large black woman
(c) a small barefoot child
(d) Sartorius

3. What damages Kelvin's face?
(a) radiation from the ocean
(b) heat from the shuttle liftoff
(c) a razor
(d) acid from the laboratory

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

5. What does Snow do when Kelvin asks about Gibarian?
(a) cries
(b) screams
(c) laughs
(d) faints

6. How does Snow say that Gibarian died?
(a) murder
(b) a heart attack
(c) suicide
(d) an accident

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

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

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

10. What happens when Kelvin goes into the restroom?
(a) Rheya attacks the door.
(b) Rheya begins sobbing.
(c) Rheya breaks through the wall.
(d) Rheya disappears.

11. What does Kelvin find underlined in a book?
(a) a description of Berton
(b) a description of Carucci's hovercraft
(c) André Berton's name
(d) the names of Carucci and Fechner

12. Who is in Gibarian's room when Kelvin arrives?
(a) Sartorius
(b) the visitor Kelvin saw in the hall
(c) Snow
(d) no one

13. What is Rheya wearing when Kelvin sees her?
(a) a sundress
(b) a pants suit
(c) a spacesuit
(d) a black dress

14. What nickname does Snow ask Kelvin to call him?
(a) Ratface
(b) Dogface
(c) Snakeface
(d) Catface

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kelvin plan to test his own sanity?

2. Which sun sets after Kelvin has showed and changed?

3. Where does the second version of Rheya appear?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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