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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 did scholars write about following the collapse?
(a) New Neo-Liberalology
(b) Planned political economy
(c) How poor scholars generally were following the collapse
(d) Metaphysical discourse

2. What word best describes the new interior of the ship?
(a) Chaotic
(b) Extraterrestrial
(c) Dull
(d) Beautiful

3. Why is Marvin an ironic character?
(a) He is a robot built for efficiency, but incapacitated by depression.
(b) His human personality is very robotic.
(c) He is a robot with a large brain, but is extremely ignorant about the world.
(d) He inadvertently received a human personality when he was created.

4. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?
(a) She thought they would be useful as hostages.
(b) She didn not; the ship picked them up all by itself.
(c) She was worried that they would die.
(d) Zaphod told her to.

5. What is the last word the computer sings?
(a) "You'll never walk alone!"
(b) "Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart."
(c) "At the end of the storm is a golden sky."
(d) "Don't be afraid that death is nigh."

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the significance of the location where the Heart of Gold picked up Ford and Arthur?

2. What does Ford buy on his way out of the pub?

3. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?

4. What does Arthur wish he listened to?

5. What does the whale think might be a good friend, but is in fact not?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Arthur try to save Ford and himself from the Vogon? What happens?

2. Why does Trillian have trouble sleeping?

3. What were the circumstances of how Arthur and Zaphod originally met?

4. Why are the events of the next chapter given away in advance? What is withheld?

5. What is Arthur angry about? What does he do?

6. Why does the computer say that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

7. Why does Ford have trouble sleeping?

8. How does Ford Prefect manage to get Arthur to stop lying in front of the bulldozers?

9. What does the Nutri-Matic drink machine do?

10. What is the significance of the babel fish?

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