Mostly Harmless Test | Final Test - Hard

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

Mostly Harmless Test | Final 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. How many days are there in a year on Lamuella?

2. What do the other two creatures give her?

3. What type of solution does Ford look for, to get himself and the Guide out of the thirteenth floor of the Guide offices?

4. What do hunters have to do to kill the Perfectly Normal Beasts for food?

5. What does the new Guide test first, with Random?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the new Guide demonstrate with a laser and the rain?

2. What comes out of the trees toward Random, as she goes through the woods?

3. How does Ford react when he first sees a pikka bird?

4. What does the man who accosts Ford and Arthur when they enter the London club say?

5. How does the new Guide arrange a spaceship to come?

6. What does Tricia learn when she calls her television station from the editing booth?

7. How is the Earth finally destroyed?

8. Why doesn't Arthur's watch tell the right time?

9. What do Ford and Arthur talk about as they ride the Perfectly Normal Beast away?

10. What does the owner of the spaceship that Ford tries to buy tell him?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Tricia and Trillian are two possible lives of one person. Discuss Tricia and Trillian in the novel.

1) How are Tricia and Trillian similar? How are they different? What does this say about the effect of external factors on personality and identity?

2) What roles do randomness and chance play in Tricia and Trillian's fate? What does this say about the nature of randomness and chance?

3) How would Tricia and Trillian react to each other if they met and got a chance to interact? What would they think of each other?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss communication in the novel.

1) What types of failures of communication appear in the novel? How do Ford and Arthur fail to communicate with each other?

2) How do Arthur and Random fail to communicate with each other? Why does Random have such difficulty communicating?

3) What is the relationship between differing perspectives and failed communication in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Arthur and Ford are literary foils. Compare their characters and roles in the novel.

1) How do Ford and Arthur react differently to change and risk? How do they understand and respond to the universe differently?

2) What do Ford and Arthur value? How are their points of view different, and how does this relate to their identity? How does it affect their actions and choices?

3) Why does the author use two characters who are opposites? How does it affect the story and the reader?

(see the answer keys)

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