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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Trillian pick up hitchhikers?
(a) She thought they would be useful as hostages.
(b) Zaphod told her to.
(c) She was worried that they would die.
(d) She didn not; the ship picked them up all by itself.

2. Which government owns the Starship Heart of Gold?
(a) No one owns it, it has been stolen.
(b) Omicron VI
(c) The Galactic Hyperspace Federation
(d) The Sirius Cybernetics Empire

3. What does Arthur wish he listened to?
(a) What his mother said when he was young
(b) More of Beethoven's music
(c) What his teachers told him about space
(d) The Vogon poem, because it may have had some clues about how to escape

4. What fantastic new industry was created?
(a) Custom constellations
(b) Custom starships
(c) Custom planets
(d) Customer service

5. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?
(a) A passing Teaser
(b) An interstellar freighter
(c) The Starship Heart of Gold
(d) The Space Trucker

6. What will die in the next chapter?
(a) A whale
(b) Seven rabbits
(c) Trillian's white mice
(d) One of the characters

7. What is the name of Zaphod's private brain care specialist?
(a) Eccentrica Gallumbits
(b) Glorm Boxtem
(c) Slartibartfast
(d) Gag Halfrunt

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

9. What does Ford start turning into?
(a) An elderberry bush
(b) A penguin
(c) A madman with five heads
(d) Arthur

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

11. Which character has something odd about him or her, like they are missing something?
(a) Zaphod
(b) Trillian
(c) Ford
(d) Arthur

12. What does the computer do as the missiles approach?
(a) Shut down
(b) Sing
(c) Take evasive action
(d) Raise shields

13. Who is Mr. Prosser a descendant of?
(a) Genghis Khan
(b) Ivan the Terrible
(c) King Henry VIII
(d) Alexander the Great

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

15. Is this sort of thing going to happen every time the improbability drive is used?
(a) Very probably
(b) Highly improbably
(c) Problematically probably
(d) The probability is unknown.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the Vogons going to do to Arthur and Ford?

2. What does the Guide say about the Earth?

3. Where does Marvin have a terrible pain?

4. What does Zaphod find?

5. Why is Marvin an ironic character?

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