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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Where does Rheya go while Kelvin's brainwaves are being recorded?
(a) She is locked in his room.
(b) She is locked in the shuttle.
(c) She comes with him.
(d) She hides in the corridor.

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

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

5. Whose voice does Kelvin hear in his sleep?
(a) Snow's
(b) Rheya's
(c) Gibarian's
(d) Sartorius's

6. What does the voice warn Kelvin about, in his dream?
(a) The other scientists locking him up.
(b) The other scientists leaving the station.
(c) The other scientists plotting to kill him.
(d) The other scientists building a machine.

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

8. What appears on Solaris' ocean fifteen days after the end of the experiment?
(a) a giant tower
(b) a deep depression to the bottom of the ocean
(c) a perfect translucent red sphere
(d) a mist and wings of foam

9. What is Kelvin looking for, that he thought about during the brainwave recording?
(a) a scientific measuring instrument
(b) a picure of Geise
(c) a computer program
(d) a locket

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

11. 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 it's almost certain to work.
(d) He says he's sabotaged it so that it won't work.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the ocean do when it laps up against humans?

2. Does Kelvin want Snow's plan to stop the visitors to succeed?

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

4. What are Kelvin's brainwaves recorded onto?

5. What experiment does Sartorius want to perform?

(see the answer keys)

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