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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Ford and Arthur?
(a) They find a way back into the ship.
(b) They are rescued.
(c) They die in deep space.
(d) They are sucked into the gravitational pull of a nearby planet.

2. What is the significance of the location where the Heart of Gold picked up Ford and Arthur?
(a) It is the geographic center of the universe.
(b) It is the same sector where Zaphod picked up Trillian.
(c) It was the location where the Heart of Gold originates from.
(d) There is a black hole there.

3. What is a good source of Brownian motion?
(a) Plutonium atoms
(b) A sub-meson brain
(c) A nice hot cup of tea
(d) Zydrine crystals

4. Who has come to visit the Earth in massive yellow spaceships?
(a) Martians
(b) Vogons
(c) Betelgeuse traders
(d) The evil people of Krikkit

5. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?
(a) Red and yellow
(b) Purple and pinkish
(c) Yellow and blue
(d) Green and blue

Short Answer Questions

1. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?

2. What word describes the new personality of the computer?

3. What does Ford hum to the guard in an attempt to stir some feelings within him?

4. What is the result of the improbability sum?

5. Who saved Ford and Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Arthur try to save Ford and himself from the Vogon? What happens?

2. What does Trillian say about her degree in math and astrophysics? What does she mean?

3. What went through the mind of the bowl of petunias? Why do you think this is?

4. What does the Nutri-Matic drink machine do?

5. Who is Zaphod Beeblebrox?

6. What is the significance of the babel fish?

7. How was the Infinite Improbability Drive created?

8. How do the characters react to the surface of Magrathea?

9. What is the significance of the chances of being picked up in space?

10. Why are the events of the next chapter given away in advance? What is withheld?

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