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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the usual fate of those who are determined to make fools of themselves in public?
(a) Death by alcoholism
(b) The sanitarium
(c) Tax exile
(d) Infomercials

2. What do the characters find sitting next to the Heart of Gold upon their return to the surface?
(a) Marvin the robot
(b) The Blagulon Kappa policecraft
(c) A gold statue
(d) A Vogon book of poetry

3. What is not one of Arthur's problems?
(a) Energy
(b) Romance
(c) Time
(d) Money

4. What is Arthur having trouble with?
(a) His thinking
(b) His lifestyle
(c) His weight
(d) His eyesight

5. Who was Yooden Vranx?
(a) The former Galactic President
(b) An Arcturian captain
(c) A real gas
(d) All of the above

6. What causes the alarms to sound?
(a) Arthur steals a planetary design award.
(b) Zaphod shoots a Magrathean.
(c) The mice alert the planet of Arthur's escape.
(d) A hostile ship lands on the planet.

7. How long will the new program take to run?
(a) A nanosecond
(b) Twelve thousand years
(c) Ten million years
(d) Twenty million years

8. What happened to the life-support systems in the cops' backpacks?
(a) They backfired.
(b) They ran out of batteries.
(c) They went on strike.
(d) They blew up.

9. How do the the characters survive the onslaught of police gunfire?
(a) It stops.
(b) They fight back.
(c) They find a trap door.
(d) The mice kill the cops.

10. Who will see the characters at the end of the chapter?
(a) Slartibartfast
(b) The police
(c) Arthur
(d) The mice

11. Who are furious about the Earth's destruction?
(a) The Galactic Government
(b) Mice
(c) Dentrassi
(d) Vogons

12. What is the name of the supercomputer?
(a) The Milliard Gargantubrain
(b) The Pondermatic
(c) Deep Thought
(d) The Googleplex Starthinker

13. What is an important fact?
(a) A towel is the most important thing you can possess.
(b) You cannot trust anyone.
(c) Things are not always what they seem.
(d) Humans are not intelligent.

14. What speed does the aircar travel at?
(a) 1000m/hr
(b) Warp 5
(c) R17
(d) 10 lightyears/hr

15. What happened to the dolphins when the Vogons arrived?
(a) They negotiated with the Vogons and were taken away.
(b) They died along with the humans.
(c) They left by their own means.
(d) No one is entirely sure.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the mice want?

2. What did the most intelligent species on Earth do with their time?

3. How many times can a galactic civilization grow from a single worm in ten million years?

4. What happens to Arthur when he grabs the two ends of wire?

5. What subject is Arthur reading about?

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