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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 want Kelvin to perform?
(a) an experiment to communicate with Solaris
(b) an experiment to permanently confine the visitors
(c) an experiment to secure the station against emanations from Solaris
(d) an experiment to destabilize the visitors at a subatomic level

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

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

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

5. Where does Kelvin go after the experiment?
(a) his quarters
(b) the shuttle bay
(c) Gibarian's quarters
(d) the library

6. What is the common perception of Solaris during the second period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
(a) that the ocean is a complex biological creature
(b) that the ocean is completely inanimate
(c) that the ocean is a lifeless chemical form
(d) that the ocean is alien to the galaxy

7. What does Kelvin want to do after he realizes Rheya is truly gone?
(a) kill himself
(b) destroy Solaris
(c) destroy the research station
(d) kill Sartorius

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

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

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

11. What makes Rheya nervous about Snow?
(a) He does not want to touch her.
(b) He yells at her.
(c) He looks at her strangely.
(d) He twitches all the time.

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

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

14. What happens to Rheya after she tries to kill herself?
(a) She regenerates and is not harmed.
(b) She regenerates and loses her memory.
(c) She dies and another Rheya appears.
(d) She disappears and another Rheya appears.

15. How does Kelvin introduce Rheya?
(a) as his wife
(b) as his girlfriend
(c) as a coworker
(d) as a friend

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the station travel to repeat the experiment?

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

3. How long will it take to receive a reply from Earth?

4. Why does Snow want to go off the station with Kelvin?

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

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