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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 three phases does each civilization seem to pass through?
(a) Birth, Life, and Death.
(b) Ignorance, Education, and Synthesis.
(c) Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication.
(d) Peace, War, and Ambivalence.

2. What do the mice want?
(a) All of the characters dead
(b) Arthur's brain
(c) To hire Arthur as a consultant
(d) To ask Arthur what the ultimate question is

3. What type of dinosaur's ribcage is Slartibartfast's chair made of?
(a) Stegosaurus
(b) Velociraptor
(c) Brontosaurus
(d) Tyrannasaurus Rex

4. Who caused a war by an idle comment?
(a) Arthur
(b) Zaphod
(c) Ford
(d) Trilian

5. What happens to Arthur when he grabs the two ends of wire?
(a) Nothing
(b) He is electrocuted.
(c) A bird flies through him.
(d) He suddenly understands why he is so unhappy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What subject is Arthur reading about?

2. What planet are the cops from?

3. What is the old man's name?

4. What country's coastlines did Slartibartfast get an award for?

5. What does the old man unsuccessfully try to do to Arthur?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Zaphod alter his own brain?

2. What does Slartibartfast's award mean to him?

3. Why do the philosophers object to Deep Thought? What is the computer's solution?

4. Describe the scene that Arthur sees through the Sens-O-Tape.

5. What does Arthur cause with his idle remark?

6. What is R used to measure?

7. What is the story of Veet Voojagig?

8. What is Zaphod Beeblebrox trying to do with the Pan Galactic Gargle Blasters?

9. Why do you think the mice and the Magratheans are going to so much trouble to make the Earth seem like a real planet?

10. What do you think Deep Thought's answer means?

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