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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, The Monsters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at the molecular level?
(a) The molecules are irregular.
(b) The blood has no molecules.
(c) It looks normal.
(d) The molecules are too precise.

2. How does Kelvin know his way around the space station?
(a) He spent six weeks in a replica of it on Earth.
(b) He helped design and build the prototype station.
(c) He spent three years on a similar station around another planet.
(d) He trained in a holographic replica on the trip to the station.

3. What book can't Kelvin find in Gibarian's room?
(a) The Imposturia
(b) The Little Apocrypha
(c) The Lost Solarian Truth
(d) The Big Lie of Solaris

4. When Kelvin wakes, what is Rheya doing?
(a) cooling his forehead with damp cloths
(b) pacing back and forth around the room
(c) sitting at the end of the bed, staring at him
(d) searching through the closet

5. Who is in Gibarian's room when Kelvin arrives?
(a) no one
(b) Sartorius
(c) the visitor Kelvin saw in the hall
(d) Snow

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?

2. What does Kelvin do when he hears someone coming down the hall while he's in Gibarian's room?

3. Before the discovery of Solaris, why did scientists think a planet like Solaris could never contain life?

4. What does Kelvin propose that the visitors are made of?

5. What does Snow call the visitors?

(see the answer key)

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