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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 does Deep Thought want to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Design a better digital watch
(c) Calculate the vectors of the atoms in the big bang
(d) Design another supercomputer

2. What is Zaphod good at?
(a) Sleeping
(b) Eating
(c) Talking
(d) Stealing

3. Who are the hosts?
(a) Strange blue creatures
(b) The new Galactic President and his entourage
(c) The Intergalatic Police
(d) Trillian's white mice

4. Where do Arthur and the others escape to?
(a) A wormhole
(b) A computer bay
(c) A spacecraft
(d) An empty office

5. What did Ford kindly leave Arthur?
(a) His towel
(b) His stun-ray
(c) His copy of the Guide
(d) A pillow

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What type of weapons are the cops using?

5. What is being built in Magrathea's factory?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Arthur cause with his idle remark?

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

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

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

6. Why did Zaphod alter his own brain?

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

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

9. What is still unfinished about the New Earth?

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

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