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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Rheya and Kelvin spend their time talking about?
(a) whether to leave the ship
(b) what has happened to Sartorius
(c) their future on Earth
(d) how to destroy Solaris

2. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?
(a) Communication with the ocean will cause more hostile behavior.
(b) A neutrino disruptor could create an explosion.
(c) Submerging anything in the ocean will be interpretted as aggression.
(d) All their ideas will be ineffective.

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

4. What does Snow say that Sartorius is planning to cure?
(a) desire
(b) mankind
(c) thought
(d) immortality

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

6. When does Snow say the experiment will be ready?
(a) in a week
(b) that day
(c) in two or three days
(d) in a month

7. What do Snow and Kelvin send to Earth?
(a) new data gathered from the ocean storm
(b) a ship's log
(c) a report of the events
(d) an electroencephalogram

8. What problem does Kelvin see in bringing Rheya to Earth?
(a) She won't fit in with other people.
(b) She doesn't have proper papers and wouldn't be allowed on Earth.
(c) She won't be able to leave his side after they arrive on Earth.
(d) She would suffer from culture shock.

9. What kind of god does Kelvin ask Snow if he's ever heard of?
(a) a blind god
(b) an imperfect god
(c) an unconscious god
(d) a malevalent god

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

11. What does Snow say is the result of Sartorius' experiment?
(a) a dangerous void
(b) prolonged dying
(c) death for the wrong one
(d) an unstable field

12. What is Kelvin's mood following the experiment?
(a) elated and manic
(b) apprehensive and disconnected
(c) angry and agitated
(d) depressed and withdrawn

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

14. During the period after the experiment, how does Snow communicate with Kelvin?
(a) through notes or the videophone
(b) through secret meetings
(c) through tape recorded messages
(d) not at all

15. What is the common perception of Solaris during the first period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
(a) that the ocean is alien to the galaxy
(b) that the ocean is completely inanimate
(c) that the ocean is a complex biological creature
(d) that the ocean is a lifeless chemical form

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about the success of the upcoming experiment?

2. What does Sartorius ask Kelvin to think about during the electroencephalogram?

3. What did Kelvin's thesis compare?

4. How does Kelvin react to his strange dreams?

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

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