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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes the new interior of the ship?

2. What word describes the new personality of the computer?

3. Who is Mr. Prosser a descendant of?

4. What was life in the former Galactic Empire largely free of?

5. What sits in a corner of the control cabin of the Starship Heart of Gold?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Marvin's problem?

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

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

4. What is Arthur angry about? What does he do?

5. Why does Ford have trouble sleeping?

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

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

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

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

10. Why does Trillian have trouble sleeping?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay stating your opinion, with evidence, of intelligent life on other planets.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that describes the personality of Zaphod Beeblebrox, and compares him to famous contemporary figures.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that lists and explains all of the references within the novel to feelings of unease with the universe and the characters within it.

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