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

2. Where does Zaphod suggest eating?
(a) Veet Voojagig's house
(b) The local greasy starship
(c) The Nutri-Matic Machine
(d) The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

3. What is the old man's name?
(a) Fastilarislast
(b) Bartislartfast
(c) Fartislartbast
(d) Slartibartfast

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

5. What would Slartibartfast rather be than right?
(a) Happy
(b) Young
(c) Respected
(d) Wealthy

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Slartibartfast offer to take Arthur?

2. How does Slartibartfast respond when Arthur tries to talk to him in the aircar?

3. What is the significance of Arthur's feelings of paranoia?

4. What were the two most improbable events in the history of the universe?

5. What do the characters find sitting next to the Heart of Gold upon their return to the surface?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do the characters learn any great lessons through the course of this book?

2. How did Zaphod and Ford meet Yooden Vranx?

3. Why do the mice believe the Ultimate Question they made up will sound plausable to the general public?

4. How does Slartibartfast make Arthur feel? How does he speak?

5. Explain what Slartibartfast means when he says, "That's bureaucracy for you."

6. What is Zaphod Beeblebrox trying to do with the Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters?

7. What does Arthur cause with his idle remark?

8. What is the story of Veet Voojagig?

9. What have the inhabitants of Magrathea been doing all this time? Why?

10. What is still unfinished about the New Earth?

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