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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What had mankind achieved?
(a) Science, math, art, and so on.
(b) Digital watches, fire, New Jersey, and so on.
(c) The wheel, wars, New York, and so on.
(d) The car, computers, England, and so on.

3. What color is the old man's robe?
(a) Black
(b) Grey
(c) Blue
(d) Deep purple

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

5. How many sheep does Marvin count before going to sleep?
(a) Five hundred and twenty-three million
(b) Five hundred and eighty-six trillion
(c) Five hundred and ninety-seven billion
(d) Five hundred and a thousand zillion

6. Can Deep Thought figure out the great question?
(a) Yes, but it will take some time
(b) Perhaps, perhaps not
(c) Yes
(d) No

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

8. How many pages is this chapter?
(a) Five
(b) Three and a bit
(c) A little more than two
(d) Less than one

9. How does Arthur describe Slartibartfast's story?
(a) Salutary
(b) Salubrious
(c) Subtle
(d) Salient

10. What is Zaphod good at?
(a) Talking
(b) Stealing
(c) Sleeping
(d) Eating

11. How many times can a galactic civilization grow from a single worm in ten million years?
(a) Once or twice
(b) Three times
(c) Umpteen times
(d) Five times

12. What three phases does each civilization seem to pass through?
(a) Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication.
(b) Peace, War, and Ambivalence.
(c) Ignorance, Education, and Synthesis.
(d) Birth, Life, and Death.

13. What is the old man's name?
(a) Fartislartbast
(b) Slartibartfast
(c) Fastilarislast
(d) Bartislartfast

14. What does Arthur almost run into at the end of the chapter?
(a) The whale carcass
(b) A pack of ghosts
(c) An old man
(d) Marvin

15. How does Deep Thought rank in terms of all-time thinking power?
(a) First
(b) Third
(c) Second
(d) Fourth

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of planet building does the old man enjoy the most?

2. How long does it take anyone to speak after hearing the answer?

3. What causes the alarms to sound?

4. Why is Slartibartfast's study a total mess?

5. What was the final message from the dolphins?

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