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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will die in the next chapter?
(a) A whale
(b) Seven rabbits
(c) Trillian's white mice
(d) One of the characters

2. Where have Zaphod and Arthur met before?
(a) At a party in Islington
(b) When Zaphod buzzed Earth as a teaser
(c) When Arthur was abducted by aliens
(d) They have never actually met.

3. What does Zaphod have a problem with?
(a) Humans
(b) Trillian
(c) His third arm
(d) His brain

4. Why is Marvin an ironic character?
(a) His human personality is very robotic.
(b) He inadvertently received a human personality when he was created.
(c) He is a robot built for efficiency, but incapacitated by depression.
(d) He is a robot with a large brain, but is extremely ignorant about the world.

5. What is written on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
(a) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(b) This End Up
(c) Don't Panic
(d) Front Cover

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

7. What are the initials burned into Zaphod's brain?
(a) T.M.
(b) F.P.
(c) Z.B.
(d) A.D.

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

9. What escapes?
(a) The ghosts of planet Magrathea
(b) The sperm whale
(c) Trillian's pet mice
(d) Marvin

10. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?
(a) Yellow and blue
(b) Green and blue
(c) Red and yellow
(d) Purple and pinkish

11. Where are the characters located?
(a) Barnard's Star
(b) The Horsehead Nebula
(c) The Milky Way
(d) The Basingstoke Roundabout

12. Where does Arthur Dent work?
(a) From home
(b) In local radio
(c) In magazine advertising
(d) At a television station

13. Who is Ford Prefect?
(a) All of the above
(b) A drunk
(c) A roving researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(d) Arthur Dent's friend

14. What does the whale think might be a good friend, but is in fact not?
(a) The ground
(b) The wind
(c) His tail
(d) The bowl of petunias

15. What did scholars write about following the collapse?
(a) How poor scholars generally were following the collapse
(b) Metaphysical discourse
(c) Planned political economy
(d) New Neo-Liberalology

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of an Antarean parakeet is a revolting delicacy?

2. What day could Arthur never get the hang of?

3. How many suns does Magrathea have?

4. Who saved Ford and Arthur?

5. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?

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