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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What escapes?
(a) Trillian's pet mice
(b) Marvin
(c) The ghosts of planet Magrathea
(d) The sperm whale
2. What does Zaphod Beeblebrox do to the Heart of Gold?
(a) Make a speech about it
(b) Destroy it
(c) Steal it
(d) Christen it
3. 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
4. How long can you survive in space with a lungful of air?
(a) Thirty seconds
(b) A minute
(c) As long as you can hold your breath
(d) Five seconds
5. 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) The beginning of Auld Lang Syne
(d) A tuneless melody that popped into Ford's head
6. How does Arthur save the ship?
(a) He turns on the Improbability Drive.
(b) He maneuvers the ship so that the missiles collide with an asteroid.
(c) He never really figures out exactly how he did it.
(d) He kicks the computer, engaging its guidance systems.
7. What can respectable physicists really not stand for?
(a) Wild parties
(b) Debasements of science
(c) A smart-ass
(d) Zaphod Beeblebrox
8. How does Vogon poetry rank in the universe?
(a) Eleventh
(b) Second best
(c) The very worst
(d) Third worst
9. What are the initials burned into Zaphod's brain?
(a) Z.B.
(b) T.M.
(c) A.D.
(d) F.P.
10. What is a good source of Brownian motion?
(a) Plutonium atoms
(b) Zydrine crystals
(c) A sub-meson brain
(d) A nice hot cup of tea
11. Who saved Ford and Arthur?
(a) The Great Collapsing Hrung
(b) Arthur
(c) The Vogons
(d) The Dentrassis
12. Where are the characters located?
(a) The Horsehead Nebula
(b) The Milky Way
(c) The Basingstoke Roundabout
(d) Barnard's Star
13. What does the babel fish allow Aurthur to do?
(a) Understand alien languages
(b) Have babel fish for lunch
(c) See in the dark
(d) Sleep
14. What fantastic new industry was created?
(a) Custom constellations
(b) Custom starships
(c) Custom planets
(d) Customer service
15. What does Ford start turning into?
(a) Arthur
(b) A madman with five heads
(c) A penguin
(d) An elderberry bush
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Arthur Dent work?
2. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?
3. What happens to Ford and Arthur?
4. What is written on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
5. What does Arthur say that saving everyone's lives was?
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