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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 do when Snow gives him a drink?
(a) Kelvin pours the drink out on the floor.
(b) Kelvin drinks the drink.
(c) Kelvin spits out the drink.
(d) Kelvin throws the drink in Snow's face.

2. What does Kelvin tell Rheya when she asks if she is immortal?
(a) He says he doesn't know.
(b) He says that she is part of Solaris.
(c) He says that she is immortal.
(d) He says that she is not immortal.

3. What is Kelvin looking for, that he thought about during the brainwave recording?
(a) a scientific measuring instrument
(b) a locket
(c) a picure of Geise
(d) a computer program

4. What does Snow do the first time Kelvin sees him after the experiment?
(a) He opens a can of meat and starts gobbling it down.
(b) He mutters to himself, completely ignoring Kelvin and Rheya.
(c) He stumbles into the kitchen and collapses on the floor.
(d) He walks into the kitchen area and falls asleep in a chair.

5. What is the common perception of Solaris during the second period of Solarist study that Gravinsky identifies?
(a) that the ocean is alien to the galaxy
(b) that the ocean is a lifeless chemical form
(c) that the ocean is completely inanimate
(d) that the ocean is a complex biological creature

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin say when Rheya asks if he would marry, if she were gone?

2. What happens to Rheya after she tries to kill herself?

3. What third person does Kelvin think about during the brainwave recording?

4. What does Rheya think might help her stay out of Kelvin's sight?

5. What are Kelvin's brainwaves recorded onto?

Short Essay Questions

1. What book does Kelvin read in the library?

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

3. What does Rheya want from Kelvin, after she listens to the tape recorder?

4. How does Kelvin imagine his return to Earth?

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

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

7. Describe a mimoid.

8. What does Snow call Rheya?

9. What reason does Kelvin give for wanting to go off the station?

10. What can't Kelvin find, when he wakes in the morning?

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