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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Arthur say that saving everyone's lives was?
(a) His greatest achievement
(b) His way of saying thanks for rescuing Ford and himself from space
(c) Really good thinking
(d) Nothing

2. Resistance is...
(a) Useless.
(b) Encouraged.
(c) Vain.
(d) Futile.

3. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) A robot
(b) A bar
(c) Trillian
(d) A computer

4. What day could Arthur never get the hang of?
(a) Wednesday
(b) Monday
(c) Thursday
(d) Friday

5. What colors are the Heart of Gold's interior after Arthur activates the Improbability Drive?
(a) Red and yellow
(b) Yellow and blue
(c) Green and blue
(d) Purple and pinkish

6. What is the planet Damogran home to?
(a) Zaphod Beeblebrox
(b) A secret type of ion drive
(c) A Vogon Constructor Fleet
(d) The Heart of Gold

7. What was life in the former Galactic Empire largely free of?
(a) Wealth
(b) Happiness
(c) Taxes
(d) Suffering

8. Was does Zaphod search for on the sub-etha radio?
(a) Some decent gunk music
(b) News about himself
(c) A signal from the intergalactic fence who will help him sell the Heart of Gold
(d) The movements of the Vogon Constructor Fleet

9. How does Vogon poetry rank in the universe?
(a) Eleventh
(b) Second best
(c) Third worst
(d) The very worst

10. What is the last word the computer sings?
(a) "Don't be afraid that death is nigh."
(b) "You'll never walk alone!"
(c) "Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart."
(d) "At the end of the storm is a golden sky."

11. What do all the molecules of a hostess's underwear move in accordance with?
(a) The theory of gravitation
(b) The theory of relativity
(c) The theory of interference
(d) The theory of indeterminacy

12. How long has Magrathea been dead for?
(a) A billion and a half years
(b) Ten million years
(c) Five million years
(d) Seven million years

13. What does the whale think might be a good friend, but is in fact not?
(a) His tail
(b) The bowl of petunias
(c) The wind
(d) The ground

14. What does Zaphod find?
(a) The most improbable planet ever
(b) The best vacation spot imaginable
(c) The most improbable creature in existence
(d) The most improbable galaxy ever

15. What has opened a passage into the interior of the planet?
(a) An asteroid
(b) The Improbability Drive
(c) One of the nuclear missiles
(d) The whale

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the shipboard computer?

2. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?

3. What is Arthur concerned about?

4. Which government owns the Starship Heart of Gold?

5. Why is Arthur so excited to be on Magrathea?

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