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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. When does Snow say the experiment will be ready?
(a) in two or three days
(b) in a month
(c) that day
(d) in a week

2. When does Snow say that the visitors first appeared?
(a) after the scientists performed microwave experiments
(b) after the scientists performed X-ray experiments
(c) after an explosion near the surface of Solaris
(d) after an explosion in Solaris's ocean depths

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

4. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?
(a) Communication with the ocean will cause more hostile behavior.
(b) Submerging anything in the ocean will be interpretted as aggression.
(c) A neutrino disruptor could create an explosion.
(d) All their ideas will be ineffective.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Kelvin's mood following the experiment?

2. What did Kelvin's thesis compare?

3. What does Snow do before visiting Kelvin?

4. Where does Kelvin ask Rheya to wait while he visits Snow?

5. What does Kelvin suddenly decide to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What metaphor does Kelvin use to describe trying to understand Solaris?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Rheya sign her suicide note?

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