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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Arthur finds Random at his hut, what does she say to him?

2. What condition is Ford in when Arthur discovers him?

3. How fast do the Perfectly Normal beasts travel?

4. What does Old Thrashbarg shout after Ford and Arthur as they ride off?

5. What does Random do with the rag given to her by the creature in the forest?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ford get the new Guide out of the Guide offices?

2. What does Random find at the crash site?

3. What is odd about the Perfectly Normal Beast?

4. Describe the monument that marks the location where the species Vogon Vogonblurtus first appeared.

5. What worries Ford about what's happened during his visit to the Guide?

6. What does the owner of the spaceship that Ford tries to buy tell him?

7. How does Ford suggest getting off Arthur's new home planet?

8. What do Ford and Arthur talk about as they ride the Perfectly Normal Beast away?

9. What comes out of the trees toward Random, as she goes through the woods?

10. How does the new Guide arrange a spaceship to come?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of being human as it is presented in the novel.

1) How do alien races in the novel emphasize what it means to be human by being different from human beings?

2) How do alien races in the novel emphasize what it means to be human by exhibiting and exaggerating human characteristics?

3) How do Arthur, Tricia, and Random represent the human race in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the limitations of knowledge in the novel.

1) How does identity and perspective limit knowledge in the novel?

2) How do the limitations of knowledge doom the characters to being unsuccessful in stopping the new Guide from achieving its goal?

3) In what ways are limitations of knowledge good and bad in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss chance and randomness in the novel.

1) How does chance and randomness affect the Earth and its different possibilities in different dimensions?

2) How does the existence of the new Guide destroy chance and randomness?

3) How does chance and randomness affect the characters, for good or ill, in the story?

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