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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Why is Arthur Dent's house being demolished?
(a) To clear the view for the owners of the expensive houses down the road
(b) It does not meet fire code.
(c) To make way for a bypass
(d) To make room for a new condo development

5. What is the name of Zaphod's private brain care specialist?
(a) Glorm Boxtem
(b) Slartibartfast
(c) Gag Halfrunt
(d) Eccentrica Gallumbits

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

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

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

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

10. What does Zaphod have a problem with?
(a) Trillian
(b) His brain
(c) His third arm
(d) Humans

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

12. Where does the ship go when the Improbability Drive is activated?
(a) Back to the smoking remains of the Earth
(b) Into the interior of the planet Magrathea
(c) Nowhere
(d) It appears in orbit of the planet Damogran.

13. How does Arthur save the ship?
(a) He maneuvers the ship so that the missiles collide with an asteroid.
(b) He kicks the computer, engaging its guidance systems.
(c) He turns on the Improbability Drive.
(d) He never really figures out exactly how he did it.

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

15. How does Vogon poetry rank in the universe?
(a) Third worst
(b) The very worst
(c) Second best
(d) Eleventh

Short Answer Questions

1. Where have Zaphod and Arthur met before?

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

3. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?

4. How long has Magrathea been dead for?

5. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?

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