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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do parents tell their children about the legend of Magrathea?
(a) They want them to grow up to become economists.
(b) They want them to grow up to become psychologists.
(c) They want them to grow up to become sociologists.
(d) They want them to grow up to become physical therapists.

2. 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 is the same sector where Zaphod picked up Trillian.
(c) It is the geographic center of the universe.
(d) It was the location where the Heart of Gold originates from.

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

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

5. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?
(a) He does not think about it much at all.
(b) He loathes it.
(c) He thinks of it as a necessary evil.
(d) He loves it.

6. What did Zaphod call himself when he was on Earth?
(a) Peter
(b) Phil
(c) Ned
(d) Steve

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

8. What is written on the cover of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
(a) The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
(b) This End Up
(c) Front Cover
(d) Don't Panic

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

10. What does Eddie say the characters' adventure will end in?
(a) Celebration
(b) Tears
(c) Blood
(d) Sadness

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

12. Which government owns the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) The Galactic Hyperspace Federation
(b) No one owns it, it has been stolen.
(c) Omicron VI
(d) The Sirius Cybernetics Empire

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of the improbability sum?

2. Who is Ford Prefect?

3. Where does the ship go when the Improbability Drive is activated?

4. What can respectable physicists really not stand for?

5. What is the planet Damogran home to?

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