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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 fantastic new industry was created?
(a) Customer service
(b) Custom planets
(c) Custom starships
(d) Custom constellations

2. What words best describe the reunion of Ford and Zaphod?
(a) Orgiastic boredom
(b) Excited enthusiasm
(c) Appalling nonchalance
(d) Zarkingly great energy

3. What is the equivalent of saying "blood... blood" to a computer?
(a) Bad math
(b) Counting
(c) Talking about using a slide rule
(d) Threatening to turn off the power

4. What type of drive is the conventional engine of the Heart of Gold?
(a) Photon
(b) Plasma
(c) Ion
(d) Anti-gravity

5. What will die in the next chapter?
(a) Trillian's white mice
(b) One of the characters
(c) A whale
(d) Seven rabbits

Short Answer Questions

1. What goes through the mind of the bowl of petunias?

2. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?

3. Where does Arthur Dent work?

4. What play does an infinite number of monkeys write?

5. Who saved Ford and Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the problem with Marvin the android?

2. How does Ford Prefect manage to get Arthur to stop lying in front of the bulldozers?

3. Why does Zaphod pretend to be stupid? What does Trillian think of this?

4. Why does Ford have trouble sleeping?

5. What was life like in the former Galactic Empire?

6. Why does Trillian have trouble sleeping?

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

8. What is the significance of the babel fish?

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

10. How was the Infinite Improbability Drive created?

(see the answer keys)

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