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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. How many suns does Magrathea have?
(a) One
(b) Three
(c) Four
(d) Two

2. How does Arthur save the ship?
(a) He maneuvers the ship so that the missiles collide with an asteroid.
(b) He never really figures out exactly how he did it.
(c) He turns on the Improbability Drive.
(d) He kicks the computer, engaging its guidance systems.

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

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

5. What does the Guide say about the Earth?
(a) A small blue-green planet
(b) Nothing at all
(c) Harmless
(d) That it has been destroyed by the Vogons

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?

2. Which government owns the Starship Heart of Gold?

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

4. Where does Marvin have a terrible pain?

5. What did scholars write about following the collapse?

Short Essay Questions

1. How was the Infinite Improbability Drive created?

2. What were the circumstances of how Arthur and Zaphod originally met?

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

4. What is the problem with Marvin the android?

5. What is the significance of the babel fish?

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

7. What problems does Zaphod have with the computer?

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

9. Why does the computer say that most people's lives are governed by telephone numbers?

10. What is Marvin's problem?

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