Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Solaris? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. When Rheya begins to cry and Kelvin tries to comfort her she says:
"Mad! Good god!"
"It's all right to cry. Crying gets the sad out of you."
"Leave me alone. They aren't real tears."
"The past does not exist. But you do, here and now."
Q. Who says, "Certain events, which have actually happened, are horrible, but what is more horrible still is what hasn't happened, what has never existed"?
Snow, explaining to Kelvin why he is afraid of the invisible vampire bunny in Gibarian's coffin.
Snow, explaining to Kelvin that being visited by his dead wife isn't so bad as all that.
Kelvin, explaining to Rheya how horrible it was when the hundred and six died.
Kelvin, explaining to Rheya that he busted the tools and is sorry.
Q. To what does "The Despairing Jelly" refer?
It is how Snow describes Kelvin because he is such a wet dishrag.
It is how Kelvin describes the colloid he gives to Rheya to cheer her up.
It is the name given to one of Sartorius's visitors, whom we never meet.
It is a headline about the Solaris ocean inspired by Kelvin's doctoral thesis.
Q. When Kelvin says he knows Sartorius "in the same way" as he knows Snow, what does he mean?
They are all best friends and play water polo in the Solaris ocean every Thursday.
He knows both Snow and Sartorius only from photographs.
Both Snow and Sartorius are visitors plucked from Kelvin's fantasies.
Rheya has told him about them.
Q. When Snow says to Kelvin, "Haven't you got the guts to face them both?" what "both" is he referring to?
Both versions of Rheya—the one he shot into space and the one he is in love with
Both Giese and Kelvin's father
Both Sartorius and Gibarian
Both King Kong and Godzilla