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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rheya try to kill herself?
(a) swallowing liquid oxygen
(b) shooting herself
(c) walking out into space unprotected
(d) cutting her own throat

2. What does Snow think there is a chance for, based on their experiences?
(a) destroying Solaris
(b) contact with Solaris
(c) more research missions to Solaris
(d) creating a duplicate Solaris

3. What does Kelvin awake to hear in the middle of the night?
(a) a constant drip he cannot find
(b) inhuman screaming
(c) sobbing from the walls
(d) a deep cracking sound

4. What does Kelvin try to do after Rheya tries to kill herself?
(a) hold her
(b) kiss her
(c) run away from her
(d) choke her

5. What does Snow give to Kelvin?
(a) a suicide note from Rheya
(b) a piece of jewelry from Rheya
(c) a tape recording from Rheya
(d) a piece of Rheya's dress

6. What does Rheya give Kelvin before he goes to sleep after he asks what she's doing in the night?
(a) bitter-tasting juice
(b) strangely colored water
(c) chalky seeming milk
(d) potent wine

7. What does Rheya say when Kelvin asks where she went the previous night?
(a) She says she visited snow.
(b) She says she's practicing being away from him.
(c) She says she looked out over Solaris.
(d) She says he was dreaming.

8. What makes Rheya nervous about Snow?
(a) He yells at her.
(b) He looks at her strangely.
(c) He does not want to touch her.
(d) He twitches all the time.

9. What does Sartorius ask Kelvin to think about during the electroencephalogram?
(a) mankind's rich scientific history
(b) images from his childhood
(c) a wish to make the visitors disappear
(d) his innermost conflicts

10. What happens the following night?
(a) The ocean level drops steeply
(b) The ocean becomes phosphorescent.
(c) The ocean's surface becomes hard and calcified.
(d) The ocean becomes deep green.

11. What does Kelvin say when Rheya asks if he would marry, if she were gone?
(a) He says he doesn't know.
(b) He says he might marry, but not soon.
(c) He says he would never marry.
(d) He says he would probably marry.

12. Where does the station travel to repeat the experiment?
(a) north, near the northern pole
(b) south, near the southern pole
(c) north to the equator
(d) south to the equator

13. What does Kelvin try to convince Rheya of, after she tries to kill herself?
(a) that he doesn't love her anymore
(b) that he wants her to stay with him
(c) that she is the same as the real Rheya
(d) that he knows how to kill her

14. Where does Kelvin ask Rheya to wait while he visits Snow?
(a) in his room
(b) in a closet
(c) in the corridor
(d) locked in the shuttle

15. How does Kelvin introduce Rheya?
(a) as a friend
(b) as his wife
(c) as his girlfriend
(d) as a coworker

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin do when Snow gives him a drink?

2. What experiment does Snow suggest to Kelvin?

3. What does Snow say that Kelvin is doing, which Gibarian also did?

4. When does Snow say that the visitors first appeared?

5. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she is immortal?

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