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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 is wrong with the ship?
(a) It is surrounded by a deadly force-field.
(b) It appears to be dead.
(c) It is on fire.
(d) It is out of gas.

2. Who will see the characters at the end of the chapter?
(a) Slartibartfast
(b) Arthur
(c) The police
(d) The mice

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

4. What planet are the cops from?
(a) Esflovian
(b) Blagulon Kappa
(c) Voondon
(d) Allosimanius Syneca

5. How do the the characters survive the onslaught of police gunfire?
(a) The mice kill the cops.
(b) It stops.
(c) They fight back.
(d) They find a trap door.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Deep Thought want to do?

2. What is not one of Arthur's problems?

3. What did Ford kindly leave Arthur?

4. What country's coastlines did Slartibartfast get an award for?

5. What type of talk costs lives?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Zaphod alter his own brain?

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

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

5. How does the author create suspense in this chapter?

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

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

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

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

10. How do the characters escape from the computer bay?

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