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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. What is the result of the improbability sum?
(a) Infinity squared
(b) Ten trillion billion to one
(c) Infinity minus one
(d) Two to the power of two hundred and seventy-six thousand, seven hundred and nine to one against

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

3. Where does Marvin have a terrible pain?
(a) In his right knee joint
(b) In his neural network
(c) In his pain processors
(d) In the diodes of his left side

4. Who was poor in the former Galactic Empire?
(a) Alpha Centaurians
(b) No one
(c) Nobody worth speaking of
(d) Everyone

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ford start turning into?

2. What fantastic new industry was created?

3. How does Arthur save the ship?

4. Where were Ford and Arthur picked up?

5. What rank of intelligence did humans have on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the problem with Marvin the android?

2. What does the Nutri-Matic drink machine do?

3. What were the circumstances of how Arthur and Zaphod originally met?

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

5. What is Marvin's problem?

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

7. What problems does Zaphod have with the computer?

8. Why does Ford have trouble sleeping?

9. What went through the mind of the bowl of petunias? Why do you think this is?

10. What was life like in the former Galactic Empire?

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