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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Trillian's only link with Earth?
(a) A digital watch
(b) Her cat
(c) Arthur
(d) Mice

5. 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 physical therapists.
(c) They want them to grow up to become sociologists.
(d) They want them to grow up to become psychologists.

6. Who is Ford Prefect?
(a) All of the above
(b) Arthur Dent's friend
(c) A drunk
(d) A roving researcher for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

7. Was does Zaphod search for on the sub-etha radio?
(a) News about himself
(b) The movements of the Vogon Constructor Fleet
(c) Some decent gunk music
(d) A signal from the intergalactic fence who will help him sell the Heart of Gold

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

9. What is the result of the improbability sum?
(a) Infinity minus one
(b) Infinity squared
(c) Ten trillion billion to one
(d) Two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against

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

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

12. Resistance is...
(a) Vain.
(b) Futile.
(c) Encouraged.
(d) Useless.

13. What does the Guide say about the Earth?
(a) Nothing at all
(b) Harmless
(c) A small blue-green planet
(d) That it has been destroyed by the Vogons

14. Which character has something odd about him or her, like they are missing something?
(a) Trillian
(b) Ford
(c) Zaphod
(d) Arthur

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of an Antarean parakeet is a revolting delicacy?

2. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?

3. What was the home of this new industry?

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

5. What are the Vogons going to do to Arthur and Ford?

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