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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What does Kelvin see about the formation, when he gets near it?
(a) It is broken off of a larger formation.
(b) It seems to have miniature city-like patterns in it.
(c) It is the same as a picture he saw long ago.
(d) It reflects memories he has of Earth.

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

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

10. What do Snow and Kelvin see in the ocean?
(a) a symmetriad
(b) a mimoid
(c) an extensor
(d) an asymmetriad

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

12. 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) talk to someone in the hall
(d) cry in the corner of the room

13. What character trait does Kelvin say Rheya's suicide attempt shows?
(a) courage
(b) selfishness
(c) cowardice
(d) selflessness

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

15. When does Snow say that the visitors first appeared?
(a) after the scientists performed microwave experiments
(b) after an explosion in Solaris's ocean depths
(c) after the scientists performed X-ray experiments
(d) after an explosion near the surface of Solaris

Short Answer Questions

1. What new theory does Kelvin say Snow has created about Solaris?

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

3. When does Rheya say was the only time she lied to him?

4. What appears on Solaris' ocean fifteen days after the end of the experiment?

5. What does Kelvin want to do after he realizes Rheya is truly gone?

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