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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What club did Tricia go to in New York that she wants to tell someone about?

2. How long did it take Arthur to get to NowWhat?

3. After what type of animal does Ford name the security robot?

4. What two directives does the computer understand from the corrupted original mission module?

5. What does Tricia find on her lawn?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Tricia think is happening when the spaceship lands in her yard?

2. What does Ford say to the armed men who are in the editor's office?

3. How does Ford return the card he stole from his editor?

4. How does Arthur recognize the maps of NowWhat?

5. What major event happened to most other versions of the Earth in other dimensions?

6. What does Eric want Tricia to do when she gets home?

7. How does Tricia fail her interview?

8. What does the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Mk II look like?

9. What concerns Gail about her interview with Tricia?

10. At the relocation office, when Arthur imagines himself back on Earth, what does he imagine doing?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss social satire in the novel.

1) How does the Guide and its offices serve as social satire? How does it represent large corporations in the real world? How does the story of the failed air control system for offices compare to this satire, as a social satire of technology?

2) How do the Vogons function as social satire? What types of people and organizations do they satire? How is bureaucracy depicted?

3) What other elements of social satire are present in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the dangers of technological exploration in the novel.

1) What are the dangers of the innate desire to explore and try new things? How does this affect the universe through the development of time travel and space travel in the novel?

2) How does the new Guide represent the dangers of technological exploration?

3) How does NowWhat relate to the dangers of technological exploration?

Essay Topic 3

In Mostly Harmless, multiple dimensions or possible universes are converging and crossing over into each other. The characters deal with the full range of possibilities. Discuss multiple dimensions in the novel.

1) What is the WSOGMM? Why is this idea important to the novel?

2) Why is it difficult or impossible for any one person to comprehend the totality of dimensions or universes? Why is it dangerous for the Guide to comprehend everything?

3) How do multiple potential possibilities affect the characters in the novel? How does the existence of multiple potential possibilities allow the new Guide to manipulate reality?

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