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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Rheya try to kill herself?
(a) cutting her own throat
(b) swallowing liquid oxygen
(c) shooting herself
(d) walking out into space unprotected

2. What character trait does Kelvin say Rheya's suicide attempt shows?
(a) cowardice
(b) courage
(c) selfishness
(d) selflessness

3. What third person does Kelvin think about during the brainwave recording?
(a) his mother
(b) his brother
(c) his father
(d) his sister

4. What does Rheya give Kelvin before he goes to sleep after he asks what she's doing in the night?
(a) bitter-tasting juice
(b) chalky seeming milk
(c) potent wine
(d) strangely colored water

5. What does Snow give to Kelvin?
(a) a tape recording from Rheya
(b) a piece of Rheya's dress
(c) a piece of jewelry from Rheya
(d) a suicide note from Rheya

6. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about the success of the upcoming experiment?
(a) He says it's almost certain to work.
(b) He says it is futile and will not work.
(c) He says he's worried it might work.
(d) He says he's sabotaged it so that it won't work.

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

8. What does Kelvin tell Rheya about her blood?
(a) It is strange at a subatomic level.
(b) It does not last outside her body.
(c) It is formless at a microscopic level.
(d) It is like his own.

9. Where does the station travel to repeat the experiment?
(a) south, near the southern pole
(b) south to the equator
(c) north, near the northern pole
(d) north to the equator

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

11. What does Sartorius ask Kelvin to think about during the electroencephalogram?
(a) his innermost conflicts
(b) a wish to make the visitors disappear
(c) images from his childhood
(d) mankind's rich scientific history

12. What does Kelvin try to convince Rheya of, after she tries to kill herself?
(a) that he wants her to stay with him
(b) that he knows how to kill her
(c) that he doesn't love her anymore
(d) that she is the same as the real Rheya

13. What does Snow say is the result of Sartorius' experiment?
(a) an unstable field
(b) prolonged dying
(c) death for the wrong one
(d) a dangerous void

14. What do Rheya and Kelvin spend their time talking about?
(a) their future on Earth
(b) whether to leave the ship
(c) how to destroy Solaris
(d) what has happened to Sartorius

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

Short Answer Questions

1. During the period after the experiment, how does Snow communicate with Kelvin?

2. What appears on Solaris' ocean fifteen days after the end of the experiment?

3. What does Kelvin argue to Snow?

4. When does Snow say the experiment will be ready?

5. What does Kelvin want to do after he realizes Rheya is truly gone?

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