The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Study Questions & Topics for Discussion

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Topics for Further Study

Make up a work order for the Magratheans, explaining the kind of world you would like them to build. Be specific about the kinds of geographical features and animals you would like to see, and explain why.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy summarizes the whole Earth with only two words: "mostly harmless." Write up an extended entry for a guidebook that will explain your town in detail to people from other planets.

Write a poem that you think might have been written by Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings of Greenbridge, Essex, England, whose work is identified in the novel as the worst in the universe. Explain the elements of your poem that you think make it so terrifyingly awful.

Suppose that the novel is right in saying that humans are not in control of Earth, but wrong in believing that either mice or dolphins are the most...
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