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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Zaphod Beeblebrox do to the Heart of Gold?
(a) Destroy it
(b) Christen it
(c) Steal it
(d) Make a speech about it

4. What does the computer do as the missiles approach?
(a) Shut down
(b) Raise shields
(c) Take evasive action
(d) Sing

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

6. What has opened a passage into the interior of the planet?
(a) The Improbability Drive
(b) The whale
(c) An asteroid
(d) One of the nuclear missiles

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

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

9. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) A robot
(b) Trillian
(c) A computer
(d) A bar

10. How many suns does Magrathea have?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Three
(d) One

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

12. What is Arthur concerned about?
(a) If Trillian is interested in him
(b) Whether or not Magrathea is safe
(c) What they are going to have for breakfast
(d) If he can ever have tea again

13. Who has come to visit the Earth in massive yellow spaceships?
(a) Martians
(b) Betelgeuse traders
(c) The evil people of Krikkit
(d) Vogons

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

15. What does Zaphod find?
(a) The most improbable galaxy ever
(b) The most improbable planet ever
(c) The best vacation spot imaginable
(d) The most improbable creature in existence

Short Answer Questions

1. Resistance is...

2. Why do parents tell their children about the legend of Magrathea?

3. Where could Ford have more fun than Magrathea?

4. What word best describes the new interior of the ship?

5. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?

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