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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What new theory does Kelvin say Snow has created about Solaris?
(a) that Solaris is a child
(b) that Solaris is mad
(c) that Solaris is a mother
(d) that Solaris is unconscious

2. What does Snow offer to give Kelvin?
(a) some work cleaning the station
(b) some calculations to do
(c) a puzzle to solve
(d) some work constructing a computer

3. Where is Rheya when Kelvin wakes up with a fuzzy head after being drugged?
(a) Rheya is in the hall.
(b) Rheya is in the bathroom.
(c) Rheya is missing.
(d) Rheya is in the shuttle.

4. What result does Kelvin note that Sartorius' experiment has?
(a) The planet Solaris seems to be shifting subtly in its orbit.
(b) A strange formation is visible in the ocean.
(c) It has no result.
(d) A new object appears on the ship.

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

6. Why does Kelvin make his argument?
(a) Kelvin secretly believes all the visitors have rights.
(b) Kelvin secretly has a plan to destroy only Rheya.
(c) Kelvin does not want to endanger himself, Snow, or Sartorius.
(d) Kelvin secretly does not want Rheya destroyed.

7. What happens to Rheya after she tries to kill herself?
(a) She regenerates and loses her memory.
(b) She regenerates and is not harmed.
(c) She dies and another Rheya appears.
(d) She disappears and another Rheya appears.

8. What odd action does Kelvin notice Snow is performing?
(a) leaning carefully against a slightly ajar door
(b) holding his hand deep inside his jacket
(c) standing only on one foot
(d) holding his hand inside a slightly ajar door

9. What does Kelvin suddenly decide to do?
(a) bombard the formation with radiation
(b) take a shuttle into orbit
(c) seal himself away from the station's windows
(d) take a helicopter to visit the formation

10. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she is immortal?
(a) He says that she is immortal.
(b) He says that she is part of Solaris.
(c) He says that she is not immortal.
(d) He says he doesn't know.

11. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?
(a) locks Sartorius away
(b) locks his visitor in a room
(c) covers his visitor's face
(d) ejects his visitor in a shuttle

12. What does the ocean do when it laps up against humans?
(a) It avoids contact with human forms.
(b) It engulfs human bodies.
(c) It begins to meld with human forms.
(d) It sticks to human forms.

13. What does Snow hypothesize is necessary for the visitors to survive?
(a) a way to reform lost particles
(b) a way to recycle neutrinos
(c) a constant influx of energy
(d) a constant influx of matter

14. What does Kelvin do when Snow gives him a drink?
(a) Kelvin drinks the drink.
(b) Kelvin throws the drink in Snow's face.
(c) Kelvin pours the drink out on the floor.
(d) Kelvin spits out the drink.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem does Kelvin see in bringing Rheya to Earth?

2. How does Rheya try to kill herself?

3. What is Kelvin's mood following the experiment?

4. What does Rheya believe she was created to do?

5. How does Kelvin react to his strange dreams?

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