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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 occupies the seventeenth floor of the Guide offices?

2. What is the advice of the man on the pole?

3. What does Tricia find on her lawn?

4. For what does Arthur now mostly use his Hitch Hiker's Guide?

5. What told Tricia that the man she met at the party was definitely from another planet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ford stop himself from falling?

2. How does the security robot act after Ford alters it?

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

4. Why are officials unconcerned about Fenchurch's disappearance?

5. What animal do the armed men in the editor's office remind Ford of?

6. Explain WSOGMM.

7. What concerns Gail about her interview with Tricia?

8. What does the Hitch Hiker's Guide do to areas where it sets up its offices?

9. What is Ford surprised to find while he's doing what he came to the virtual reality for?

10. How does the Grebulon ship computer know about the hole in the ship?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss happiness in the novel.

1) What creates happiness in the novel? Are the factors that contribute to happiness internal or external?

2) How do personality and identity contribute to happiness in the novel?

3) What is the relationship between happiness and belonging in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

All of the characters have unique and sometimes conflicting perspectives in the novel. Discuss relative perspectives and points of view in the novel.

1) What are the limitations of individual perspectives of characters like Arthur, Ford, Tricia, and Random? How do their perspectives affect their choices?

2) Why does the author emphasize limited, individual perspectives in the novel?

3) How is a limited perspective necessary for understanding and comprehending the world?

Essay Topic 3

Arthur and Ford are literary foils. Compare their characters and roles in the novel.

1) How do Ford and Arthur react differently to change and risk? How do they understand and respond to the universe differently?

2) What do Ford and Arthur value? How are their points of view different, and how does this relate to their identity? How does it affect their actions and choices?

3) Why does the author use two characters who are opposites? How does it affect the story and the reader?

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