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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 want to do after he realizes Rheya is truly gone?
(a) destroy Solaris
(b) destroy the research station
(c) kill himself
(d) kill Sartorius

2. When does Rheya say was the only time she lied to him?
(a) when she would not leave his side
(b) when she said she believed in him
(c) when she hid the tape recorder
(d) when she said she couldn't remember how she got there

3. What does the ocean do when it laps up against humans?
(a) It sticks to human forms.
(b) It begins to meld with human forms.
(c) It engulfs human bodies.
(d) It avoids contact with human forms.

4. What does Kelvin try to do after Rheya tries to kill herself?
(a) kiss her
(b) choke her
(c) hold her
(d) run away from her

5. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about her blood?
(a) It is like his own.
(b) It is strange at a subatomic level.
(c) It does not last outside her body.
(d) It is formless at a microscopic level.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin say when Snow suggests Kelvin's "god" is mankind?

2. What does Snow say that Sartorius is planning to cure?

3. What does the voice warn Kelvin about, in his dream?

4. What does Kelvin suddenly decide to do?

5. Whose voice does Kelvin hear in his sleep?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does Rheya choose the method she uses to try to kill herself?

5. What book does Kelvin read in the library?

6. Why does Snow want to give Kelvin a job to do?

7. What formation does Kelvin see as the ship travels to the polar region of Solaris?

8. Why does Rheya lie to Kelvin about what she did during the night?

9. Why does Kelvin go to the library?

10. Why doesn't Kelvin share his doubts about the upcoming experiment with Rheya?

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