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

2. What gas do the beings from this planet breathe?
(a) Methane
(b) Oxygen
(c) Carbon-Monoxide
(d) Helium

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

4. Where does Slartibartfast offer to take Arthur?
(a) To sign a petition against the Vogons
(b) For a stroll on the New Earth
(c) To meet the mice
(d) To see Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the old man give for the missiles that nearly destroyed the Heart of Gold?

2. What happened to the life-support systems in the cops' backpacks?

3. What does Phouchg call the name "Earth"?

4. What is the imaginary planet that Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford are on made of?

5. What was the final message from the dolphins?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do you think the meaning of life is? Is there only one answer?

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

3. What is still unfinished about the New Earth?

4. Did the dolphins leave mankind to its fate, or try to help?

5. How do Phouchg and Loonquawl react to Deep Thought's answer?

6. What species do you think is smarter than the dolphins? How do you know?

7. Why do the philosophers object to Deep Thought? What is the computer's solution?

8. How did Zaphod and Ford meet Yooden Vranx?

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

10. What do you think Deep Thought's answer means?

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