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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 book can't Kelvin find in Gibarian's room?
(a) The Little Apocrypha
(b) The Big Lie of Solaris
(c) The Lost Solarian Truth
(d) The Imposturia

2. How old does Rheya appear?
(a) thirty-nine
(b) nineteen
(c) twenty-nine
(d) forty-nine

3. When Kelvin wakes, what is Rheya doing?
(a) searching through the closet
(b) sitting at the end of the bed, staring at him
(c) cooling his forehead with damp cloths
(d) pacing back and forth around the room

4. Who was the first scientist to have a visitor?
(a) Sartorius
(b) Gibarian
(c) Shannahan
(d) Snow

5. What does Kelvin notice about Rheya's foot?
(a) It is smooth and uncalloused.
(b) It is malformed.
(c) It has no wrinkles or toe prints.
(d) It is rough and hardened.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is in Gibarian's room when Kelvin arrives?

2. Why does Kelvin think the warning is strange?

3. Besides the envelope, what does Kelvin take from Gibarian's room?

4. What do Rheya and Kelvin need when the sun rises?

5. What giant human form does Berton see imitated by Solaris' ocean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What does Snow say that mankind is seeking in outer space?

4. Describe Snow.

5. What does Kelvin do before removing his spacesuit?

6. Describe the person Kelvin is shocked to see go into Gibarian's room.

7. What do Rheya's death and Gibarian's death have in common?

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

9. Why aren't Berton's experiences related in the Supplement that Gibarian's note directs Kelvin to?

10. Was Gibarian dead when Snow found him?

(see the answer keys)

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