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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What was the home of this new industry?
(a) Alpha Centauri
(b) Earth
(c) Sector ZZ9, plural Z Alpha
(d) Magrathea

4. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?
(a) She didn not; the ship picked them up all by itself.
(b) She thought they would be useful as hostages.
(c) She was worried that they would die.
(d) Zaphod told her to.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Is this sort of thing going to happen every time the improbability drive is used?
(a) Highly improbably
(b) The probability is unknown.
(c) Very probably
(d) Problematically probably

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

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

14. What are the Vogons going to do to Arthur and Ford?
(a) Throw them into space
(b) Return them to the Earth
(c) Vaporize them
(d) Put them in prison

15. What type of drive is the conventional engine of the Heart of Gold?
(a) Photon
(b) Ion
(c) Plasma
(d) Anti-gravity

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ford use to conceal the alien technology in his satchel?

2. What has Zaphod turned into an art form?

3. What does Arthur awake to the sound of?

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

5. What is the name of Zaphod's private brain care specialist?

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