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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Kelvin say he wants to do?
(a) complete the experiment with Sartorius
(b) leave the station with Rheya
(c) leave the station alone
(d) travel down to Solaris's surface

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

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

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

6. What does Sartorius ask Kelvin to think about during the electroencephalogram?
(a) images from his childhood
(b) his innermost conflicts
(c) mankind's rich scientific history
(d) a wish to make the visitors disappear

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

8. What does Rheya think might help her stay out of Kelvin's sight?
(a) having a picture of him
(b) hearing his voice
(c) being hypnotized
(d) being unconscious

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

10. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she looks like the first Rheya.
(a) He says she did at first, but now he doesn't know.
(b) He says she looks exactly like Rheya.
(c) He says she looks subtly different than Rheya.
(d) He says she looks more and more unlike Rheya.

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

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

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

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

15. When does Snow say the experiment will be ready?
(a) in a week
(b) that day
(c) in a month
(d) in two or three days

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin awake to hear in the middle of the night?

2. What does Kelvin overhear Rheya do in the middle of the night?

3. What does Snow say that Sartorius is planning to cure?

4. What can symmetriads contain?

5. What are Kelvin's brainwaves recorded onto?

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