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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 did Zaphod invent?
(a) The Gynnan-Tonix
(b) The Infinite Improbability Drive
(c) The Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster
(d) The field of professional brain care

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

3. What word best describes the new interior of the ship?
(a) Beautiful
(b) Extraterrestrial
(c) Dull
(d) Chaotic

4. What is Marvin's nickname?
(a) Depresso
(b) The Paranoid Android
(c) The Complain-o-matic
(d) Marvy

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has come to visit the Earth in massive yellow spaceships?

2. What does Zaphod think about the ship computer?

3. What is the job of the Intergalactic President?

4. What happens to Ford and Arthur?

5. What ship rescues Ford and Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How was the Infinite Improbability Drive created?

3. How does Ford Prefect manage to get Arthur to stop lying in front of the bulldozers?

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

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

6. Why does Zaphod pretend to be stupid? What does Trillian think of this?

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

8. How do the characters react to seeing the planet Magrathea? What do they think of its legend?

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

10. What does Ford fail to understand about humans?

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