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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 30.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Deep Thought want to do?
(a) Calculate the vectors of the atoms in the big bang
(b) Design another supercomputer
(c) Sleep
(d) Design a better digital watch

2. What was the home of this new industry?
(a) Earth
(b) Alpha Centauri
(c) Magrathea
(d) Sector ZZ9, plural Z Alpha

3. What does Ford hum to the guard in an attempt to stir some feelings within him?
(a) The first bar of Beethoven's Fifth
(b) An old Betelgeusian battle hymn
(c) The beginning of Auld Lang Syne
(d) A tuneless melody that popped into Ford's head

4. What is a good source of Brownian motion?
(a) A nice hot cup of tea
(b) A sub-meson brain
(c) Plutonium atoms
(d) Zydrine crystals

5. Where could Ford have more fun than Magrathea?
(a) A cat litter
(b) Back on the ship
(c) Beselthemun
(d) The dentist

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the series of valleys?

2. What is the job of the Intergalactic President?

3. What is not one of Arthur's problems?

4. How many times can a galactic civilization grow from a single worm in ten million years?

5. What did scholars write about following the collapse?

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