View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?
(a) An interstellar freighter
(b) The Space Trucker
(c) The Starship Heart of Gold
(d) A passing Teaser

2. How does Arthur save the ship?
(a) He kicks the computer, engaging its guidance systems.
(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 turns on the Improbability Drive.

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

4. What did Zaphod invent?
(a) The Infinite Improbability Drive
(b) The field of professional brain care
(c) The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
(d) The Gynnan-Tonix

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

6. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?
(a) Zaphod told her to.
(b) She thought they would be useful as hostages.
(c) She was worried that they would die.
(d) She didn not; the ship picked them up all by itself.

7. What was the home of this new industry?
(a) Magrathea
(b) Sector ZZ9, plural Z Alpha
(c) Alpha Centauri
(d) Earth

8. What does Ford use to conceal the alien technology in his satchel?
(a) Scripts for plays
(b) Manuscripts for the bad novels that Ford writes
(c) A towel
(d) Magazines

9. What word best describes the new interior of the ship?
(a) Extraterrestrial
(b) Chaotic
(c) Beautiful
(d) Dull

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

11. What has Zaphod turned into an art form?
(a) Creative sarcasm
(b) Unfathomability
(c) Coolness
(d) Spontanaeity

12. Where could Ford have more fun than Magrathea?
(a) A cat litter
(b) The dentist
(c) Beselthemun
(d) Back on the ship

13. Why is Arthur so excited to be on Magrathea?
(a) He has never been to an alien planet before.
(b) He has a great design for a planet that he wants to show the Magratheans.
(c) The drink he got from the machine has made his brain a little strange.
(d) He has always believed the legend.

14. What does Arthur say that saving everyone's lives was?
(a) Nothing
(b) His greatest achievement
(c) Really good thinking
(d) His way of saying thanks for rescuing Ford and himself from space

15. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?
(a) Cancer, and untied shoelaces
(b) Rage and uncontrollable anger
(c) Unbridled enthusiasm for danger
(d) Stress and nervous tension

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Trillian notice on the wall?

3. Which government owns the Starship Heart of Gold?

4. What color are the seas exactly the wrong shade of?

5. Why can Marvin not keep his mind off things?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 512 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample