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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why is Arthur Dent's house being demolished?
(a) To make way for a bypass
(b) To clear the view for the owners of the expensive houses down the road
(c) It does not meet fire code.
(d) To make room for a new condo development

3. Where could Ford have more fun than Magrathea?
(a) A cat litter
(b) Beselthemun
(c) The dentist
(d) Back on the ship

4. What does the babel fish allow Aurthur to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Have babel fish for lunch
(c) Understand alien languages
(d) See in the dark

5. Where does the ship go when the Improbability Drive is activated?
(a) Back to the smoking remains of the Earth
(b) It appears in orbit of the planet Damogran.
(c) Nowhere
(d) Into the interior of the planet Magrathea

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What has opened a passage into the interior of the planet?

3. Where were Ford and Arthur picked up?

4. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?

5. What is the name of Zaphod's private brain care specialist?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Arthur try to save Ford and himself from the Vogon? What happens?

2. What is the interior of the Starship Heart of Gold like?

3. What effect did Magrathea have on the former Galactic Empire?

4. How grateful is everyone to Arthur for saving their lives?

5. How was the Infinite Improbability Drive created?

6. What is Arthur angry about? What does he do?

7. Why are the events of the next chapter given away in advance? What is withheld?

8. What problems does Zaphod have with the computer?

9. Why does Trillian have trouble sleeping?

10. What is the significance of the babel fish?

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