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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kelvin find underlined in a book?
(a) the names of Carucci and Fechner
(b) a description of Carucci's hovercraft
(c) André Berton's name
(d) a description of Berton

2. What does most of the panel interviewing Berton think of his story?
(a) They think it actually happened.
(b) They think he was hypnotized by the ocean.
(c) They think he is hallucinating.
(d) They think he is making up the story.

3. Who gives Gibarian the book he could not find?
(a) a robot
(b) Snow
(c) Rheya
(d) Sartorius

4. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at the molecular level?
(a) The blood has no molecules.
(b) The molecules are too precise.
(c) It looks normal.
(d) The molecules are irregular.

5. When do the visitors usually come?
(a) while the scientists are sleeping
(b) while the blue sun is rising
(c) when the station is facing the north
(d) when the red sun is high

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the second version of Rheya appear?

2. When does Sartorius plan on joining Snow and Kelvin?

3. What is Kelvin looking at when he suddenly, intensely feels he's being watched?

4. What does Kelvin do after he showers and changes?

5. What is Rheya wearing when Kelvin sees her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Kelvin take the Historia Solaris down from the bookshelf?

2. What is Snow's reaction to Kelvin's description of Rheya as a woman he once loved who killed herself?

3. What does Kelvin feel as he goes into his room on the space station?

4. Why do Sartorius, Snow, and Kelvin cover the cameras on their videophones?

5. Describe the view of Solaris that Kelvin first sees from his room.

6. Is Kelvin on time for his meeting with Snow?

7. How does Kelvin periodically check to reassure himself that the research station's air circulatory system is working?

8. Explain the term "no appreciable relation to reality" as the president of the committee uses it to describe Berton's report.

9. Why does Kelvin blame himself for Rheya's death?

10. What aspect of clothing does Rheya have in common with the apparition Kelvin saw enter Gibarian's room?

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