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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arthur wish he listened to?
(a) What his mother said when he was young
(b) The Vogon poem, because it may have had some clues about how to escape
(c) What his teachers told him about space
(d) More of Beethoven's music

2. What does the computer do as the missiles approach?
(a) Take evasive action
(b) Shut down
(c) Sing
(d) Raise shields

3. What is the significance of the location where the Heart of Gold picked up Ford and Arthur?
(a) It is the same sector where Zaphod picked up Trillian.
(b) There is a black hole there.
(c) It is the geographic center of the universe.
(d) It was the location where the Heart of Gold originates from.

4. Where does the ship go when the Improbability Drive is activated?
(a) Back to the smoking remains of the Earth
(b) Nowhere
(c) It appears in orbit of the planet Damogran.
(d) Into the interior of the planet Magrathea

5. What day could Arthur never get the hang of?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Thursday
(c) Friday
(d) Monday

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a good source of Brownian motion?

2. What was life in the former Galactic Empire largely free of?

3. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?

4. Was does Zaphod search for on the sub-etha radio?

5. Why is Arthur Dent's house being demolished?

(see the answer key)

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