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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 animals do not react to the arrival of the spaceship?

2. Why don't Ford and Arthur want to get too close to the herd of Perfectly Normal Beasts?

3. What do the other two creatures give her?

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

5. For what do Ford and Arthur at first mistake the approaching spring migration of the Perfectly Normal Beasts?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Tricia learn when she calls her television station from the editing booth?

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

4. Why is Tricia upset by the video footage she has brought back from her trip into space?

5. What is odd about the Perfectly Normal Beast?

6. Why is Random fascinated by Arthur's watch?

7. How does Ford suggest getting off Arthur's new home planet?

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

9. What does the new Guide demonstrate with a laser and the rain?

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

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

The characters in the novel seek a sense of belonging. Discuss belonging in the novel.

1) What causes characters in the novel to feel a sense of belonging or a lack of belonging?

2) Why does Arthur try to seek out Earth? How does he try to find a sense of belonging after failing? What allows him to finally find a sense of belonging?

3) How does Random seek a sense of belonging? How does Arthur's watch provide a possibility of belonging?

4) How does Trillian seek a sense of belonging? How does Tricia seek a sense of belonging, and how does she lack one, even though she is still on Earth?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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