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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the common perception of Solaris during the second 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 lifeless chemical form
(d) that the ocean is a complex biological creature

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

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

8. What did Kelvin's thesis compare?
(a) patterns of sound in Solaris's ocean wth patters of sound of human speech
(b) wave movement on the ocean of Solaris with electrical and chemical movement within the human brain
(c) formations in Solaris's ocean with patterns of electrical impulse in the human brain
(d) electrical activity in Solaris's ocean with electrical activity of emotions in the human brain

9. What does Snow say their situation is beyond?
(a) imagination
(b) reality
(c) morality
(d) civilization

10. How long do asymmetriads last?
(a) a few minutes
(b) a few hours
(c) a brief second
(d) a few days

11. What does Kelvin overhear Rheya do in the middle of the night?
(a) wrap a package in paper
(b) cry in the corner of the room
(c) whisper at the window to the ocean
(d) talk to someone in the hall

12. What does Snow suggest is the reason Rheya is beautiful?
(a) to make Kelvin want her to stay with him
(b) to make Kelvin forget the real Rheya
(c) to make Kelvin angered and horrified
(d) to make Kelvin miss the real Rheya

13. What do mimoids duplicate?
(a) distant objects in space
(b) nearby innanimate objects
(c) other Solarian forms
(d) living creatures

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin say when Snow suggests Kelvin's "god" is mankind?

2. What can symmetriads contain?

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

4. Where does Rheya go while Kelvin's brainwaves are being recorded?

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

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