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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. Where does Rheya go while Kelvin's brainwaves are being recorded?
(a) She comes with him.
(b) She hides in the corridor.
(c) She is locked in the shuttle.
(d) She is locked in his room.

2. What do Snow and Kelvin send to Earth?
(a) a ship's log
(b) a report of the events
(c) an electroencephalogram
(d) new data gathered from the ocean storm

3. Why does Snow want to go off the station with Kelvin?
(a) He's worried Kelvin may want to kill himself.
(b) Snow has never been off the station before.
(c) Snow wants to tell Kelvin something in private.
(d) He wants to see the formation for himself.

4. What experiment does Sartorius want to perform?
(a) submerge a machine that transmits brain activity in real-time
(b) broadcast a scientist's brain waves to the ocean
(c) broadcast a message using binary code to the ocean
(d) submerge a radiation-emitting machine to kill the ocean

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?

2. When does Snow say that the visitors first appeared?

3. What new theory does Kelvin say Snow has created about Solaris?

4. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe a mimoid.

3. Why does Kelvin go to the library?

4. Describe an extensor.

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

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

7. What reasons does Kelvin have not to tell Rheya what she wants to know?

8. How does Rheya sign her suicide note?

9. Describe the ocean as Kelvin sees it, after leaving the research station for the first time.

10. How does Kelvin imagine his return to Earth?

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