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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 is the name of the space ship Kelvin takes from Earth to Solaris?
(a) Icarus
(b) Aeschylus
(c) Daedalus
(d) Prometheus

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

3. What does Kelvin keep in his wallet?
(a) a photo of Rheya in the woods
(b) a newspaper clipping about Rheya's death
(c) Rheya's suicide note
(d) a ring he gave to Rheya

4. What was Berton's condition when he returned from the search?
(a) eerily calm and controlled
(b) hysterical and in shock
(c) comatose
(d) hyperactive and manic

5. What is the matter with Rheya's clothes?
(a) They don't fit correctly.
(b) The cloth is supernaturally strong.
(c) They have no zipper or buttons.
(d) They seem grown onto her skin.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Snow say about Gibarian's mental condition?

2. Who is the first person Kelvin meets on the research station?

3. Besides the envelope, what does Kelvin take from Gibarian's room?

4. What will the next Rheya remember about the first visit?

5. What book can't Kelvin find in Gibarian's room?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Snow say the Polytherian forms are so dangerous?

2. What does Kelvin do before removing his spacesuit?

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

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

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

6. Why is Kelvin surprised by his greeting when he approaches the research station?

7. What does Kelvin feel as he goes into his room on the space station?

8. Why do Sartorius, Snow, and Kelvin cover the cameras on their videophones?

9. Why does Kelvin take the Historia Solaris down from the bookshelf?

10. Who was the first human to die in Solaris's ocean?

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