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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the Guide say about the Earth?
(a) Nothing at all
(b) A small blue-green planet
(c) That it has been destroyed by the Vogons
(d) Harmless

2. 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) The beginning of Auld Lang Syne
(c) An old Betelgeusian battle hymn
(d) A tuneless melody that popped into Ford's head

3. What is the planet Damogran home to?
(a) The Heart of Gold
(b) A secret type of ion drive
(c) Zaphod Beeblebrox
(d) A Vogon Constructor Fleet

4. What words best describe the reunion of Ford and Zaphod?
(a) Orgiastic boredom
(b) Zarkingly great energy
(c) Appalling nonchalance
(d) Excited enthusiasm

5. Which character has something odd about him or her, like they are missing something?
(a) Arthur
(b) Ford
(c) Trillian
(d) Zaphod

6. What is the result of the improbability sum?
(a) Ten trillion billion to one
(b) Infinity squared
(c) Two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against
(d) Infinity minus one

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

8. Who saved Ford and Arthur?
(a) The Great Collapsing Hrung
(b) The Dentrassis
(c) Arthur
(d) The Vogons

9. Who is Mr. Prosser a descendant of?
(a) King Henry VIII
(b) Ivan the Terrible
(c) Genghis Khan
(d) Alexander the Great

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

11. What was life in the former Galactic Empire largely free of?
(a) Suffering
(b) Happiness
(c) Wealth
(d) Taxes

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

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

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

15. What part of an Antarean parakeet is a revolting delicacy?
(a) The gland
(b) The gall bladder
(c) The feet
(d) The liver

Short Answer Questions

1. What can respectable physicists really not stand for?

2. What did scholars write about following the collapse?

3. Who has come to visit the Earth in massive yellow spaceships?

4. What does the computer do as the missiles approach?

5. Is this sort of thing going to happen every time the improbability drive is used?

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