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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 frightens Arthur in the aircar?
(a) A passing freighter
(b) Slartibartfast's singing
(c) A tunnel
(d) A loud metal clang
2. What type of talk costs lives?
(a) Silly
(b) Casual
(c) Careless
(d) Loose
3. What does the aircar travel through to get to the surface of Magrathea?
(a) Space-time
(b) A large computer
(c) Damp caverns
(d) Steel tunnels
4. What does the Blagulon Kappa policecraft do after Marvin the robot talks to it?
(a) It commits suicide.
(b) It attacks Marvin.
(c) It sounds an alarm.
(d) It catches fire.
5. What is the imaginary planet that Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford are on made of?
(a) Chocolate
(b) Diamonds
(c) Money
(d) Gold
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of dinosaur's ribcage is Slartibartfast's chair made of?
2. How long will it take Deep Thought to figure out the answer to life, the universe, and everything?
3. What did Ford kindly leave Arthur?
4. What does Deep Thought want to do?
5. How does Marvin get on with other robots?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are mice? What is their relation to the Earth?
2. Do the characters learn any great lessons through the course of this book?
3. Describe the conversation that Arthur has with Marvin.
4. What was the true relationship between mice and men?
5. What mental condition is Marvin suffering from? How does he display these symptoms?
6. Why do the philosophers object to Deep Thought? What is the computer's solution?
7. What do you think the meaning of life is? Is there only one answer?
8. What is R used to measure?
9. What have the inhabitants of Magrathea been doing all this time? Why?
10. What does Slartibartfast's award mean to him?
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