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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of talk costs lives?
(a) Casual
(b) Careless
(c) Loose
(d) Silly

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

3. What was the final message from the dolphins?
(a) "Until we meet again."
(b) "See you later, thanks for coming."
(c) "So long, and thanks for all the fish."
(d) "We hope you enjoyed the show."

4. What type of weapons are the cops using?
(a) Kill-O-Zap guns
(b) Nuclear missiles
(c) Flechette pistols
(d) Space-Ray Guns

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

6. Where is the Heart of Gold traveling from?
(a) Eadra
(b) Hawalius
(c) The Horsehead Nebula
(d) Jaglan Beta

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

8. What is the imaginary planet that Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford are on made of?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Diamonds
(c) Gold
(d) Money

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

10. Where does Slartibartfast offer to take Arthur?
(a) To see Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian
(b) To sign a petition against the Vogons
(c) To meet the mice
(d) For a stroll on the New Earth

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

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

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

14. What were the two most improbable events in the history of the universe?
(a) Zaphod getting elected Galactic President, and Zaphod stealing the Heart of Gold.
(b) Probably just coincidences
(c) The invention of cricket and the gin and tonic.
(d) Arthur arriving on Magrathea, and Arsenal winning the cup.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who will see the characters at the end of the chapter?

2. How long will it take Deep Thought to figure out the answer to life, the universe, and everything?

3. What does Phouchg call the name "Earth"?

4. Who starts shooting at the characters?

5. How does Deep Thought rank in terms of all-time thinking power?

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