Solaris True or False

1. 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.
2. The Gamow-Shapley theory states that life is impossible on a planet with two suns. What's happened to this theory? -> Solaris disproves it.
3. How is Rheya from Earth, who Kelvin remembers, different from the Rheya on the ship? -> The Rheya on earth worked at Chucky Cheese; the Rheya on Solaris works at Ocean Burgers 'R" Us.
4. When Snow suggests Kelvin is like Luther throwing ink bottles, he is implying that the visitors are what? -> Devils
5. What is Kelvin and Rheya's impossible dream at the end of the book? -> They dream that they'll go to Earth and buy a house and stay there forever.

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