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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did the most intelligent species on Earth do with their time?
(a) Watch movies and have a good time
(b) Conduct elegant and subtle experiments on humans
(c) Fight against the dolphins for control of the Earth
(d) Write elegant and subtle poetry

3. Why is Slartibartfast's study a total mess?
(a) The cleaning staff are dead.
(b) He is a slob.
(c) An earthquake
(d) It has been unused for thousands of years.

4. How long will it take Deep Thought to figure out the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
(a) Seven and a half million years
(b) Six thousand, three hundred years
(c) Eight and a quarter billion years
(d) Seventeen days and four hours

5. Who does Ford find lying face-down in the cold dust?
(a) Marvin the robot
(b) Zaphod Beeblebrox
(c) Arthur
(d) Slartibartfast

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

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

8. What does the aircar travel through to get to the surface of Magrathea?
(a) A large computer
(b) Space-time
(c) Damp caverns
(d) Steel tunnels

9. What does Deep Thought want to do?
(a) Calculate the vectors of the atoms in the big bang
(b) Design another supercomputer
(c) Design a better digital watch
(d) Sleep

10. How many cops are there?
(a) Four
(b) Two
(c) Six
(d) Three

11. What reason does the old man give for the missiles that nearly destroyed the Heart of Gold?
(a) The computers are bored.
(b) The ship is stolen, and there is a bounty on it.
(c) They needed to get rid of some missiles.
(d) The old regime was a little paranoid.

12. What do Phouchg and Loonquawl think they will get?
(a) Medals for bravery
(b) Lynched
(c) A better answer if they keep asking
(d) A hero's welcome

13. What are Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian doing when Arthur arrives?
(a) Being tortured
(b) Waiting for him
(c) Having their brains zapped
(d) Eating a feast

14. What is the strange irritating light not?
(a) Ultraviolet
(b) All of the above
(c) An alien spotlight
(d) Infinity

15. What is wrong with the ship?
(a) It appears to be dead.
(b) It is surrounded by a deadly force-field.
(c) It is on fire.
(d) It is out of gas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What had mankind achieved?

2. When catering to customers' tastes, what is Magrathea not?

3. What is an important fact?

4. How many pages is this chapter?

5. Where is the Heart of Gold traveling from?

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