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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Kelvin react to his strange dreams?
(a) He fears them.
(b) He loves them.
(c) He is embarrassed by them.
(d) He is disgusted by them.

2. Why is Kelvin uncertain about participating in Sartorius' experiment?
(a) He is afraid that he will unconsciously wish Rheya away.
(b) He is afraid the scientists will use the experiment to destroy Rheya.
(c) He is afraid the experiment will not work.
(d) He is afraid that Solaris will affect his mind.

3. What does Snow say that Kelvin is doing, which Gibarian also did?
(a) not shaving
(b) not sleeping
(c) talking too much
(d) reading too much

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

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

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

7. What does Snow say that Sartorius is planning to cure?
(a) immortality
(b) thought
(c) desire
(d) mankind

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

9. During the period after the experiment, how does Snow communicate with Kelvin?
(a) not at all
(b) through secret meetings
(c) through notes or the videophone
(d) through tape recorded messages

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

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

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(b) depressed and withdrawn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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rheya say when Kelvin asks where she went the previous night?

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

3. What does Snow say might happen if Kelvin leaves with Rheya?

4. What makes Rheya nervous about Snow?

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

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