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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 causes the woman who arrives in the spacecraft to head toward the Sandwich Maker's house?

2. Who does Arthur think named the Perfectly Normal Beast?

3. What is the Vogon captain's primary goal?

4. What does the new Guide transform into when it opens itself?

5. What does Old Thrashberg say is needed to attract the attention of a Perfectly Normal Beast?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Ford react when he first sees a pikka bird?

3. What worries Ford about what's happened during his visit to the Guide?

4. What comes out of the trees toward Random, as she goes through the woods?

5. What does Random find at the crash site?

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

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

8. How is the Earth finally destroyed?

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

10. What does the man who accosts Ford and Arthur when they enter the London club say?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the nature of being human as it is presented in the novel.

1) How do alien races in the novel emphasize what it means to be human by being different from human beings?

2) How do alien races in the novel emphasize what it means to be human by exhibiting and exaggerating human characteristics?

3) How do Arthur, Tricia, and Random represent the human race in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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?

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