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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Does Kelvin want Snow's plan to stop the visitors to succeed?
(a) No, he wants to save all the visitors.
(b) Yes, he wants to destroy all the visitors.
(c) Yes, but he only wants to use it for Snow and Sartorius's visitors.
(d) No, he wants to save Rheya.

2. What experiment does Snow suggest to Kelvin?
(a) to send Rheya up into space alone before going up with her
(b) to send Rheya out onto the surface of Solaris
(c) to take one of the other visitors away with him in the shuttle
(d) to check what's happened to the first duplicate Rheya in orbit around Solaris

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(a) depressed and withdrawn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

4. What third person does Kelvin think about during the brainwave recording?
(a) his mother
(b) his brother
(c) his father
(d) his sister

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

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

7. Who is the first person Kelvin thinks of during the brainwave recording?
(a) himself
(b) Rheya
(c) Sartorius
(d) Snow

8. What decision does Kelvin make at the end of the novel?
(a) He will remarry for Rheya's sake.
(b) He will take another mission on a far-off station.
(c) He will not leave Solaris.
(d) He will return to Earth and forget Solaris.

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

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

11. What does Rheya believe she was created to do?
(a) make Kelvin insane
(b) study Kelvin's reactions
(c) study Kelvin's physical form
(d) torture Kelvin

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

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

14. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about the success of the upcoming experiment?
(a) He says it is futile and will not work.
(b) He says he's worried it might work.
(c) He says he's sabotaged it so that it won't work.
(d) He says it's almost certain to work.

15. What experiment does Sartorius want to perform?
(a) submerge a radiation-emitting machine to kill the ocean
(b) submerge a machine that transmits brain activity in real-time
(c) broadcast a scientist's brain waves to the ocean
(d) broadcast a message using binary code to the ocean

Short Answer Questions

1. What can symmetriads contain?

2. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she looks like the first Rheya.

3. What experiment does Snow want Kelvin to perform?

4. What does Kelvin see about the formation, when he gets near it?

5. What makes Rheya nervous about Snow?

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