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. What creates the signal that Ford homes in on to arrive at the planet?

2. How far away is Arthur, while the Guide projects holographic images for Random?

3. How long do Ford and Arthur spend trying to catch the attention of a Perfectly Normal Beast?

4. What do Ford and Arthur do after they give up trying to catch a beast's attention?

5. What animals do not react to the arrival of the spaceship?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Tricia upset by the video footage she has brought back from her trip into space?

2. What worries Ford about what's happened during his visit to the Guide?

3. How does Ford suggest getting off Arthur's new home planet?

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

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

6. What is odd about the Perfectly Normal Beast?

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

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

9. Why is Ford worried about the new Guide?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss chance and randomness in the novel.

1) How does chance and randomness affect the Earth and its different possibilities in different dimensions?

2) How does the existence of the new Guide destroy chance and randomness?

3) How does chance and randomness affect the characters, for good or ill, in the story?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss social satire in the novel.

1) How does the Guide and its offices serve as social satire? How does it represent large corporations in the real world? How does the story of the failed air control system for offices compare to this satire, as a social satire of technology?

2) How do the Vogons function as social satire? What types of people and organizations do they satire? How is bureaucracy depicted?

3) What other elements of social satire are present in the novel?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of fate and free will in the novel.

1) Do the characters in the novel have free will? Do their circumstances and personalities force them into specific roles and choices?

2) Does the existence of the new Guide eliminate free will?

3) How does the existence of multiple dimensions, representing different potential realities, relate to fate and free will? If all possibilities exist, is there any real choice or free will?

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