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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Ford start turning into?
(a) A madman with five heads
(b) Arthur
(c) An elderberry bush
(d) A penguin

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

4. Who was poor in the former Galactic Empire?
(a) Nobody worth speaking of
(b) No one
(c) Alpha Centaurians
(d) Everyone

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

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

7. What rank of intelligence did humans have on Earth?
(a) Least intelligent
(b) Second most intelligent
(c) The most intelligent
(d) Third most intelligent

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

9. What does the babel fish allow Aurthur to do?
(a) See in the dark
(b) Have babel fish for lunch
(c) Sleep
(d) Understand alien languages

10. Why is Marvin an ironic character?
(a) He inadvertently received a human personality when he was created.
(b) He is a robot with a large brain, but is extremely ignorant about the world.
(c) He is a robot built for efficiency, but incapacitated by depression.
(d) His human personality is very robotic.

11. What fantastic new industry was created?
(a) Custom starships
(b) Custom planets
(c) Custom constellations
(d) Customer service

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After saying "Hi there!," the ship's computer prints out a ribbon of ticker tape. What does the tape say?

2. What is the result of the improbability sum?

3. Who has come to visit the Earth in massive yellow spaceships?

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

5. What are the initials burned into Zaphod's brain?

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