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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 the aircar travel through to get to the surface of Magrathea?
(a) Damp caverns
(b) Space-time
(c) Steel tunnels
(d) A large computer

2. What is the significance of Arthur's feelings of paranoia?
(a) It means that there is a fundamental type of evil existing in the universe.
(b) Probably none whatsoever
(c) It comes from his psychic link to Zaphod Beeblebrox.
(d) It means that the universe has great plans for him.

3. Who are furious about the Earth's destruction?
(a) The Galactic Government
(b) Dentrassi
(c) Vogons
(d) Mice

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

5. What is the old man's name?
(a) Slartibartfast
(b) Bartislartfast
(c) Fastilarislast
(d) Fartislartbast

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the strange irritating light not?

2. What do Phouchg and Loonquawl think they will get?

3. How many times can a galactic civilization grow from a single worm in ten million years?

4. What is an important fact?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What do the mice want from Arthur?

3. What does Arthur cause with his idle remark?

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

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

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

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

8. What is R used to measure?

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

10. How did Zaphod and Ford meet Yooden Vranx?

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