Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Solaris? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. Early in the novel, Kelvin thinks he sees someone, but it's just himself in a mirror. What theme does this suggest from the novel as a whole?
The foreign other is often just yourself.
Science has invented new and better technology, such as mirrors.
It's very important to shave and keep up appearances.
Mirrors will eat you if you're not careful.
Q. The Gamow-Shapley theory states that life is impossible on a planet with two suns. What's happened to this theory?
Solaris has proven that it was true.
Solaris disproves it.
The novel is concerned with the effort to prove or disprove it.
Gamow and Shapley mud wrestle early in the book to see which of their names should come first in the theory.
Q. How is Rheya from Earth, who Kelvin remembers, different from the Rheya on the ship?
The Rheya on Earth attempted suicide; the Rheya on the ship does not.
The Rheya on Earth fought with Kelvin; the Rheya on the ship never does.
The Rheya on Earth had normal clothes; the Rheya on the ship has clothes without fasteners.
The Rheya on earth worked at Chucky Cheese; the Rheya on Solaris works at Ocean Burgers 'R" Us.
Q. When Snow suggests Kelvin is like Luther throwing ink bottles, he is implying that the visitors are what?
Sheets of paper
Alien life forms
Animatronic Disney exhibits
Devils
Q. What is Kelvin and Rheya's impossible dream at the end of the book?
They dream that they'll import ostriches and set up a farm on the beach.
They dream that Rheya can drink liquid oxygen without dying.
They dream that they'll go to Earth and buy a house and stay there forever.
They dream that they'll stay on the station together forever.