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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 astrological sign is the Grebulon leader?

2. What do the other two creatures give her?

3. To whom is the parcel that the robot drone delivers to Arthur addressed?

4. How does Random ruin Arthur's knife?

5. In what area of London is Tricia's video editing suite?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the Earth finally destroyed?

2. How does the new Guide arrange a spaceship to come?

3. Describe how the Sandwich Maker makes a sandwich.

4. What does Random find at the crash site?

5. What does the owner of the spaceship that Ford tries to buy tell him?

6. How does Ford get the new Guide out of the Guide offices?

7. How does Arthur use Ford's towel to attract a Perfectly Normal Beast?

8. What do Ford and Arthur talk about as they ride the Perfectly Normal Beast away?

9. What sort of review does Ford give the Bar & Grill?

10. Describe the monument that marks the location where the species Vogon Vogonblurtus first appeared.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Random's character.

1) How is Random incomplete as a person? Why does she lack a sense of belonging and identity? How does this affect her personality?

2) What is the meaning of Random's name? What role does randomness and chance play in her existence?

3) Why does Random react the way she does to her mother, her father, the Guide, Tricia, and Earth? Why does she need to open the package from Ford? Why does she need to take apart Arthur's watch?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss identity in the novel.

1) How do Tricia and Trillian, as two aspects of the same person, exemplify what creates identity?

2) How does Random, as a person who feels without an identity, exemplify what creates identity?

3) What does limited perspective have to do with identity? How does a sense of belonging and a place in the universe relate to identity?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss language in the novel and the author's use of language.

1) How does the author play with language? How does the author create humor by manipulating language?

2) How does the author use irony in the novel? What other types of figurative language does the author use?

3) How does the author use naming and terminology in the book? What is the significance of the names of planets, objects, scientific ideas, and characters?

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