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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 do the characters find sitting next to the Heart of Gold upon their return to the surface?
(a) A Vogon book of poetry
(b) A gold statue
(c) The Blagulon Kappa policecraft
(d) Marvin the robot

2. What do Phouchg and Loonquawl think they will get?
(a) A better answer if they keep asking
(b) Medals for bravery
(c) A hero's welcome
(d) Lynched

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

4. What type of dinosaur's ribcage is Slartibartfast's chair made of?
(a) Stegosaurus
(b) Velociraptor
(c) Brontosaurus
(d) Tyrannasaurus Rex

5. What is the series of valleys?
(a) Just a series of valleys
(b) An aquaduct for liquid gold
(c) Storage for solid gold
(d) A hallmark

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the favorite game of the pandimensional beings?

2. What speed does the aircar travel at?

3. Why is Slartibartfast's study a total mess?

4. Where does Slartibartfast offer to take Arthur?

5. How does Marvin get on with other robots?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is R used to measure?

2. What is still unfinished about the New Earth?

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

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

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

6. How does Deep Thought intend to help the men find the question to his answer?

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

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

9. What does Arthur cause with his idle remark?

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

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