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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. What does Kelvin do after he showers and changes?
(a) He takes a nap.
(b) He goes to look for Snow.
(c) He reads.
(d) He goes to look for Sartorius.

2. Where is Gibarian?
(a) in the ocean
(b) locked in a lab
(c) dead
(d) on a shuttlepod

3. Where did Snow find Gibarian's body?
(a) in Gibarian's locker
(b) in the laboratory
(c) in Gibarian's shower
(d) in a shuttlepod

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

5. Where does Snow say the visitor Kelvin saw comes from?
(a) Snow says the visitor comes from Solaris.
(b) Snow says the visitor comes from Sartorius.
(c) Snow says the visitor comes from the stars.
(d) Snow says he doesn't know.

Short Answer Questions

1. What startles Kelvin as he's getting out of his spacesuit?

2. What did the biologists at first consider Solaris' ocean?

3. What does Dr. Messenger think that Berton saw?

4. When was Solaris first discovered?

5. How long does Kelvin tell Rheya they will stay on the station?

Short Essay Questions

1. What reason does Kelvin give for his suggestion about the physical composition of the visitors?

2. Why does Kelvin blame himself for Rheya's death?

3. What is Kelvin wearing when he arrives on the research station?

4. What is Snow's reaction to Kelvin's description of Rheya as a woman he once loved who killed herself?

5. Explain the term "no appreciable relation to reality" as the president of the committee uses it to describe Berton's report.

6. Describe the change in light between a red-sun day and a blue-sun day on Solaris.

7. What does Snow say that mankind is seeking in outer space?

8. Why does Kelvin react emotionally to the two sundresses on the floor?

9. What aspect of clothing does Rheya have in common with the apparition Kelvin saw enter Gibarian's room?

10. Is Kelvin on time for his meeting with Snow?

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