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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. In what area of London is Tricia's video editing suite?

2. What condition is Ford in when Arthur discovers him?

3. What does Ford say will probably happen to Colin?

4. What does Tricia make a model of on the alien computer system on Rupert?

5. Why is it difficult to tell Random's age?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the monument that marks the location where the species Vogon Vogonblurtus first appeared.

2. Describe how the Sandwich Maker makes a sandwich.

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

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

5. What does Random find at the crash site?

6. How does the interview between Tricia and Random go?

7. How does Ford get the new Guide out of the Guide offices?

8. What is odd about the Perfectly Normal Beast?

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

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

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 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 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?

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