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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. Who is inside Kelvin's cabin when he first enters it?
(a) Snow
(b) no one
(c) Sartorius
(d) Gibarian

2. What is Kelvin looking at when he suddenly, intensely feels he's being watched?
(a) a photograph of the binary suns
(b) a plan of the research station
(c) a model of a form created by Solaris's ocean
(d) a map of Solaris

3. What damages Kelvin's face?
(a) a razor
(b) radiation from the ocean
(c) heat from the shuttle liftoff
(d) acid from the laboratory

4. Whose voice speaks to Kelvin in the capsule to prepare him for landing?
(a) Snow
(b) Sartorius
(c) automated machinery
(d) Gibarian

5. What does Kelvin propose that the visitors are made of?
(a) photons
(b) neutrino fields
(c) tachyon fields
(d) plasma

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Snow say that Sartorius is?

2. When did Kelvin last see Rheya?

3. What happens to Kelvin's arm?

4. How did Rheya die?

5. Where is Gibarian?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Kelvin do before removing his spacesuit?

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

3. Describe Kelvin's first view of Solaris.

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

5. Describe the research station as Kelvin first sees it.

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

7. Why does Kelvin launch the shuttle?

8. How punctual does Kelvin say he is?

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

10. What reason does Kelvin give for his suggestion about the physical composition of the visitors?

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