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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 34-36.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard first arrives at Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, he overhears Dirk explain to someone at the other end of the phone line that his job involves doing what?
(a) Guessing why horses mysteriously end up in bathrooms.
(b) Tracking down and reprogramming Electronic Monks.
(c) Finding a pattern in the holistic interconnectedness of all things.
(d) Comparing fingerprints and footprints to find similarities between cases.

2. When Susan walks into her apartment after Richard has listened to parts of her answering machine tape, what does she do?
(a) Drops her bag of groceries.
(b) Slaps him.
(c) Throws her purse at him.
(d) Hugs him.

3. When Richard returns from doing an errand, he finds Dirk on the phone defending a trip to Bermuda, claiming that while he was there he successfully did what?
(a) Traced the interconnectedness of all things.
(b) Reprogrammed thirteen Electronic Monks.
(c) Solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
(d) Found nineteen missing cats.

4. At the dinner in Chapter 4, why does Sarah pass around a pot she found in Greece?
(a) She's secretly sending a message to Richard.
(b) She's collecting money for a Greek school.
(c) She wants someone to translate the strange writing inside.
(d) She wants to know if it's worth anything.

5. Who does Michael Wenton-Weakes blame for stealing his magazine?
(a) Dirk.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Ross.
(d) Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Reg tells his story to Richard and Dirk, he says he's so old that:

2. After Gordon dies and steps out of his body, what does he find surprising?

3. Why does the founder of WayForward Technologies like to call people and leave long, rambling messages on their answering machines?

4. After his phone conversation with Susan, Richard rushes over to Dirk and Reg to reveal what vital piece of information?

5. The ghost explains that he was able to enter Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mind when he was what?

(see the answer key)

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