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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) A bar
(b) Trillian
(c) A robot
(d) A computer

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

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

6. What are serious problems throughout the galaxy?
(a) Unbridled enthusiasm for danger
(b) Stress and nervous tension
(c) Cancer, and untied shoelaces
(d) Rage and uncontrollable anger

7. 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 never been to an alien planet before.
(c) He has a great design for a planet that he wants to show the Magratheans.
(d) He has always believed the legend.

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

9. How long has Magrathea been dead for?
(a) Ten million years
(b) A billion and a half years
(c) Five million years
(d) Seven million years

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

11. Who saved Ford and Arthur?
(a) The Great Collapsing Hrung
(b) The Dentrassis
(c) Arthur
(d) The Vogons

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

13. What will die in the next chapter?
(a) Seven rabbits
(b) A whale
(c) One of the characters
(d) Trillian's white mice

14. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?
(a) Red and yellow
(b) Green and blue
(c) Yellow and blue
(d) Purple and pinkish

15. After saying "Hi there!," the ship's computer prints out a ribbon of ticker tape. What does the tape say?
(a) "I want you to know that whatever your problem, I am here to help you solve it."
(b) The probability figure that Zaphod was about to ask it for.
(c) "What can I do to help you?"
(d) A telephone number.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was poor in the former Galactic Empire?

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

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

4. What escapes?

5. What does the Guide say about the Earth?

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