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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 Snow hypothesize is necessary for the visitors to survive?
(a) a constant influx of energy
(b) a way to reform lost particles
(c) a constant influx of matter
(d) a way to recycle neutrinos
2. What does Kelvin try to convince Rheya of, after she tries to kill herself?
(a) that she is the same as the real Rheya
(b) that he wants her to stay with him
(c) that he knows how to kill her
(d) that he doesn't love her anymore
3. What odd action does Kelvin notice Snow is performing?
(a) standing only on one foot
(b) holding his hand inside a slightly ajar door
(c) leaning carefully against a slightly ajar door
(d) holding his hand deep inside his jacket
4. What new theory does Kelvin say Snow has created about Solaris?
(a) that Solaris is mad
(b) that Solaris is a mother
(c) that Solaris is a child
(d) that Solaris is unconscious
5. Where does the station travel to repeat the experiment?
(a) north, near the northern pole
(b) south, near the southern pole
(c) north to the equator
(d) south to the equator
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?
2. What decision does Kelvin make at the end of the novel?
3. What is the common perception of Solaris during the first period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
4. Where does Kelvin ask Rheya to wait while he visits Snow?
5. What is Kelvin looking for, that he thought about during the brainwave recording?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Rheya choose the method she uses to try to kill herself?
2. How does Snow describe Rheya's final moments?
3. How does Rheya describe being away from Kelvin?
4. Why does Kelvin say he doesn't want Rheya to overhear his conversation?
5. Why does Rheya lie to Kelvin about what she did during the night?
6. How does Rheya sign her suicide note?
7. Why doesn't Kelvin share his doubts about the upcoming experiment with Rheya?
8. What can't Kelvin find, when he wakes in the morning?
9. What does Snow say that Sartorius wants to do to the ocean?
10. What formation does Kelvin see as the ship travels to the polar region of Solaris?
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