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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 was the only thing dolphins did?
(a) Eat a lot of fish
(b) Do tricks and sing
(c) Play in the water while having a good time
(d) Sleep

2. Who does Ford find lying face-down in the cold dust?
(a) Marvin the robot
(b) Zaphod Beeblebrox
(c) Arthur
(d) Slartibartfast

3. Where does Slartibartfast offer to take Arthur?
(a) To see Zaphod, Ford, and Trillian
(b) To meet the mice
(c) For a stroll on the New Earth
(d) To sign a petition against the Vogons

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

5. How many times can a galactic civilization grow from a single worm in ten million years?
(a) Umpteen times
(b) Five times
(c) Three times
(d) Once or twice

Short Answer Questions

1. Who goes to investigate the gunfire when it stops?

2. What is the imaginary planet that Zaphod, Trillian, and Ford are on made of?

3. What did the most intelligent species on Earth do with their time?

4. What type of dinosaur's ribcage is Slartibartfast's chair made of?

5. What color is the old man's robe?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the story of Veet Voojagig?

2. How do Phouchg and Loonquawl react to Deep Thought's answer?

3. Explain what Slartibartfast means when he says, "That's bureaucracy for you."

4. How do the characters escape from the computer bay?

5. Why did Zaphod alter his own brain?

6. What is R used to measure?

7. What do the mice want from Arthur?

8. What mental condition is Marvin suffering from? How does he display these symptoms?

9. Did the dolphins leave mankind to its fate, or try to help?

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

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