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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ford and Arthur?
(a) They find a way back into the ship.
(b) They die in deep space.
(c) They are rescued.
(d) They are sucked into the gravitational pull of a nearby planet.

2. How long can you survive in space with a lungful of air?
(a) Five seconds
(b) A minute
(c) Thirty seconds
(d) As long as you can hold your breath

3. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?
(a) He thinks of it as a necessary evil.
(b) He loves it.
(c) He loathes it.
(d) He does not think about it much at all.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?

2. What is written on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?

3. What does the babel fish allow Aurthur to do?

4. What can respectable physicists really not stand for?

5. What is the job of the Intergalactic President?

(see the answer key)

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