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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who goes to investigate the gunfire when it stops?
(a) Ford
(b) Trillian
(c) Zaphod
(d) Arthur

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

3. What is still unfinished on the New Earth?
(a) The fijords
(b) North America
(c) The treelines
(d) The fake dinosaur skeletons

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

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

6. When catering to customers' tastes, what is Magrathea not?
(a) Picky
(b) Judgemental
(c) Slow
(d) Proud

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

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

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

10. Who caused a war by an idle comment?
(a) Trilian
(b) Ford
(c) Zaphod
(d) Arthur

11. What part of planet building does the old man enjoy the most?
(a) Coastlines
(b) Rivers
(c) Mountains
(d) Plains

12. What country's coastlines did Slartibartfast get an award for?
(a) Greenland
(b) Canada
(c) Sweden
(d) Norway

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

14. What frightens Arthur in the aircar?
(a) Slartibartfast's singing
(b) A tunnel
(c) A passing freighter
(d) A loud metal clang

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the series of valleys?

2. What do the mice agree should be the ultimate question?

3. What type of weapons are the cops using?

4. Where did Veet Voojagig go to school?

5. What will the New Earth not be?

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