Mostly Harmless Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Mostly Harmless Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 120 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 are the men in the editor's office armed with when Ford returns?

2. How does Ford exit the editor's office?

3. What club did Tricia go to in New York that she wants to tell someone about?

4. When Ford re-enters the editors office, what piece of furniture does he intend to hide behind?

5. What does Eric promise Tricia he will take a look at?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the aliens on Arthur's new planet physically differ from humans?

2. How does Arthur recognize the maps of NowWhat?

3. How does the security robot act after Ford alters it?

4. What does the first prayer that the prophet on the pole gives Arthur ask to protect him from?

5. What does Eric want Tricia to do when she gets home?

6. How does Ford return the card he stole from his editor?

7. What metaphor does Tricia think of, for trying to live life according to a plan?

8. Why is Arthur the sole survivor of the space ship crash?

9. Explain WSOGMM.

10. Who comes to find out what Ford is doing in the virtual reality?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss happiness in the novel.

1) What creates happiness in the novel? Are the factors that contribute to happiness internal or external?

2) How do personality and identity contribute to happiness in the novel?

3) What is the relationship between happiness and belonging in the novel?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the limitations of knowledge in the novel.

1) How does identity and perspective limit knowledge in the novel?

2) How do the limitations of knowledge doom the characters to being unsuccessful in stopping the new Guide from achieving its goal?

3) In what ways are limitations of knowledge good and bad in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss identity in the novel.

1) How do Tricia and Trillian, as two aspects of the same person, exemplify what creates identity?

2) How does Random, as a person who feels without an identity, exemplify what creates identity?

3) What does limited perspective have to do with identity? How does a sense of belonging and a place in the universe relate to identity?

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