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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. How long do asymmetriads last?
(a) a few days
(b) a few minutes
(c) a brief second
(d) a few hours

2. Who is the second person Kelvin thinks of during the brainwave recording?
(a) Shannahan
(b) Berton
(c) Giese
(d) Gibarian

3. What does Snow say their situation is beyond?
(a) imagination
(b) civilization
(c) morality
(d) reality

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Rheya give Kelvin before he goes to sleep after he asks what she's doing in the night?

2. What appears on Solaris' ocean fifteen days after the end of the experiment?

3. What decision does Kelvin make at the end of the novel?

4. Why does Rheya try to kill herself?

5. Where is Rheya when Kelvin wakes up with a fuzzy head after being drugged?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Snow call Rheya?

2. Why does Kelvin say he doesn't want Rheya to overhear his conversation?

3. Describe an extensor.

4. Does Snow believe Kelvin when Kelvin says he loves Rheya?

5. How does Rheya sign her suicide note?

6. How does Snow describe Rheya's final moments?

7. Describe Sartorius' speech to Kelvin before the experiment.

8. Why doesn't Kelvin want to open a communications channel to the shuttle he launched?

9. Describe a mimoid.

10. What does Rheya say in her suicide note?

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