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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 happened to the dolphins when the Vogons arrived?
(a) They died along with the humans.
(b) They negotiated with the Vogons and were taken away.
(c) They left by their own means.
(d) No one is entirely sure.

2. How does Slartibartfast respond when Arthur tries to talk to him in the aircar?
(a) He shrugs and continues to fly.
(b) He ignores Arthur.
(c) He asks Arthur if he is comfortable.
(d) He tells Arthur to be quiet.

3. Who caused a war by an idle comment?
(a) Trilian
(b) Zaphod
(c) Arthur
(d) Ford

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

5. What is still unfinished on the New Earth?
(a) The treelines
(b) North America
(c) The fake dinosaur skeletons
(d) The fijords

Short Answer Questions

1. How many pages is this chapter?

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

3. What does the Blagulon Kappa policecraft do after Marvin the robot talks to it?

4. What is Deep Thought's answer to life, the universe, and everything?

5. How can Arthur experience the answer to the great question?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Slartibartfast's award mean to him?

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

3. Why do you think the mice and the Magratheans are going to so much trouble to make the Earth seem like a real planet?

4. How did Zaphod and Ford meet Yooden Vranx?

5. What is the story of Veet Voojagig?

6. Why do the cops believe that they are more intelligent and enlightened than their peers?

7. What do the mice want from Arthur?

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

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

10. What are mice? What is their relation to the Earth?

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