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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rheya feel compelled to do?
(a) stay nearby Kelvin
(b) keep Solaris's ocean in sight
(c) go to Solaris's ocean
(d) talk to Kelvin constantly

2. Whose expedition was Berton on?
(a) Fechner's
(b) Gibarian's
(c) Shannahan's
(d) Ottenskjöld's

3. When was Solaris first discovered?
(a) ten years ago
(b) the previous year
(c) a thousand years before Kelvin's birth
(d) a hundred years before Kelvin's birth

4. Who is the first person Kelvin meets on the research station?
(a) Snow
(b) Sartorius
(c) Gibarian
(d) Rheya

5. Who was the first scientist to have a visitor?
(a) Shannahan
(b) Sartorius
(c) Gibarian
(d) Snow

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

7. How does Kelvin plan to test his own sanity?
(a) by having Snow perform a full brain scan
(b) by hypnotizing himself
(c) by comparing his mathematical results to a computer's
(d) by having a computer perform psychological tests

8. When does Sartorius plan on joining Snow and Kelvin?
(a) in an hour
(b) after dark
(c) the next day
(d) never

9. What is the condition of the skin on Snow's face?
(a) sunburned
(b) wrinkled and dry
(c) red and raw
(d) deathly pale

10. Where did Fechner's body end up?
(a) on the space station
(b) floating in the atmophere
(c) strapped into Fechner's chair
(d) in the ocean of Solaris

11. Who greets Kelvin when he first lands on Station Solaris?
(a) Gibarian
(b) Sartorius
(c) Snow
(d) no one

12. Where does Kelvin lock Rheya?
(a) in the laboratory
(b) in the shuttle
(c) in a locker
(d) in a closet

13. What does Dr. Messenger think that Berton saw?
(a) The ocean creating composite images from the scientists' minds.
(b) The ocean recreating images from the mind of a dead scientist.
(c) The ocean mimicking objects and images from the spaceships.
(d) The ocean recreating images from Berton's mind.

14. What does Snow say about Kelvin's arrival?
(a) Snow heard that Kelvin's trip was canceled.
(b) Snow never knew Kelvin was coming.
(c) Snow forgot about Kelvin's arrival.
(d) Snow sent word for Kelvin not to come.

15. What strange formation does Berton first see in Solaris' ocean?
(a) a city
(b) a solar system
(c) a mountain
(d) a garden

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens if a visitor is injured?

2. What does Kelvin see on Rheya's arm?

3. Why does Sartorius agree to come out?

4. What does Rheya's blood look like to Kelvin at a subatomic level?

5. Where did Snow find Gibarian's body?

(see the answer keys)

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