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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Magrathea been dead for?
(a) Seven million years
(b) A billion and a half years
(c) Five million years
(d) Ten million years

2. What are the initials burned into Zaphod's brain?
(a) T.M.
(b) F.P.
(c) Z.B.
(d) A.D.

3. Why do parents tell their children about the legend of Magrathea?
(a) They want them to grow up to become sociologists.
(b) They want them to grow up to become economists.
(c) They want them to grow up to become psychologists.
(d) They want them to grow up to become physical therapists.

4. What type of drive is the conventional engine of the Heart of Gold?
(a) Ion
(b) Anti-gravity
(c) Plasma
(d) Photon

5. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?
(a) Stress and nervous tension
(b) Unbridled enthusiasm for danger
(c) Cancer, and untied shoelaces
(d) Rage and uncontrollable anger

6. What will die in the next chapter?
(a) One of the characters
(b) Trillian's white mice
(c) A whale
(d) Seven rabbits

7. How does Arthur save the ship?
(a) He never really figures out exactly how he did it.
(b) He kicks the computer, engaging its guidance systems.
(c) He turns on the Improbability Drive.
(d) He maneuvers the ship so that the missiles collide with an asteroid.

8. What does Ford start turning into?
(a) A madman with five heads
(b) An elderberry bush
(c) A penguin
(d) Arthur

9. What does Zaphod find?
(a) The most improbable galaxy ever
(b) The most improbable creature in existence
(c) The best vacation spot imaginable
(d) The most improbable planet ever

10. What are the Vogons going to do to Arthur and Ford?
(a) Put them in prison
(b) Throw them into space
(c) Vaporize them
(d) Return them to the Earth

11. What does the Guide say about the Earth?
(a) Nothing at all
(b) A small blue-green planet
(c) Harmless
(d) That it has been destroyed by the Vogons

12. What is the result of the improbability sum?
(a) Ten trillion billion to one
(b) Infinity squared
(c) Infinity minus one
(d) Two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against

13. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) A robot
(b) A bar
(c) A computer
(d) Trillian

14. What was life in the former Galactic Empire largely free of?
(a) Happiness
(b) Wealth
(c) Suffering
(d) Taxes

15. What is Trillian's only link with Earth?
(a) Her cat
(b) A digital watch
(c) Arthur
(d) Mice

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?

2. Who saved Ford and Arthur?

3. What did scholars write about following the collapse?

4. What is the last word the computer sings?

5. What does Ford hum to the guard in an attempt to stir some feelings within him?

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