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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What word describes the new personality of the computer?
(a) Sarcastic
(b) Condescending
(c) Ambivalent
(d) Matriarchal

3. What does Ford buy on his way out of the pub?
(a) Cigarettes
(b) Pretzels
(c) More beer
(d) Peanuts

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

5. What color are the seas exactly the wrong shade of?
(a) Green
(b) Blue
(c) Pink
(d) Yellow

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

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

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

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

10. The typical Vogon is...
(a) Evolved
(b) Vile
(c) Pleasant
(d) Drunk

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

12. What is the last word the computer sings?
(a) "Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart."
(b) "You'll never walk alone!"
(c) "Don't be afraid that death is nigh."
(d) "At the end of the storm is a golden sky."

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

14. What can respectable physicists really not stand for?
(a) Wild parties
(b) A smart-ass
(c) Debasements of science
(d) Zaphod Beeblebrox

15. What does Arthur awake to the sound of?
(a) Arguing
(b) Computerized beeping
(c) Marvin moaning and complaining
(d) Laughter

Short Answer Questions

1. What goes through the mind of the bowl of petunias?

2. What is a good source of Brownian motion?

3. What rank of intelligence did humans have on Earth?

4. What does the whale think might be a good friend, but is in fact not?

5. What is Trillian's only link with Earth?

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