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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard goes to Susan's place to comfort her after her brother's death, he finds her doing what?
(a) Playing the cello.
(b) Staring out the window.
(c) Looking at photo albums.
(d) Talking on the phone.

2. When Reg tells his story to Richard and Dirk, he says he's so old that:
(a) He doesn't remember who he is.
(b) He's seen the beginning and end of countless nations.
(c) He makes the chancellor look young.
(d) His gray hair has turned gray twenty times over.

3. In talking to Reg, Dirk figures out that when Richard seemed hypnotized, he really was:
(a) Pretending to be hypnotized.
(b) Confused.
(c) Asleep.
(d) Possessed by a ghost.

4. The ancient alien ghost explains that he came from where?
(a) Salaxala.
(b) Belonani.
(c) Overtina.
(d) Elabasa.

5. When Richard checks where he is so that he can tell Susan by phone, he sees a black tower next to a river of mud. When he asks where they are, what is Dirk's reply?
(a) "Iceland."
(b) "Bermuda."
(c) "The past."
(d) "Outer space."

6. Reg replies "You're standing in it" in response to Dirk's question of where is the what?
(a) Time machine.
(b) Alien spaceship.
(c) Haunted room.
(d) Potions lab.

7. While Dirk, Reg, and Richard try to figure out what's behind all the strange recent events, who shows up at the gates of St. Cedd's carrying a large nylon bag?
(a) Kate.
(b) Susan.
(c) Ross.
(d) Michael.

8. When the engines of the alien spaceship were damaged upon landing, the now-ghost had sent the Electric Monk out to do what?
(a) Look for life on the planet.
(b) Send an interdimensional signal.
(c) Check the engines.
(d) Bring back rock specimens.

9. According to the alien ghost's explanation, what has been orbiting Earth undetected since the explosion that killed him and his friends?
(a) The Electric Monk's ship.
(b) A feeble ghost of his exploded ship.
(c) The mothership.
(d) A giant beach ball.

10. The ancient alien ghost that has possessed Michael Wenton-Weakes had been driven mad by what?
(a) The annoying lectures he heard while haunting the campus.
(b) The knowledge of what he'd done after the accident.
(c) The distinction between green and black tea.
(d) The rising price of petrol.

11. After Reg discusses the matter of getting the salt shaker into the old Greek pot, Dirk explains that:
(a) The police are still questioning Susan.
(b) They have no time to waste.
(c) He once got a teacup stuck in a jar.
(d) Richard doesn't yet know the secret.

12. What is Reg's main reason for traveling through time?
(a) To correct the past.
(b) To watch shows he has missed.
(c) To hide when necessary.
(d) To make his magic tricks possible.

13. The ghost explains that he was able to enter Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mind when he was what?
(a) On laudanum.
(b) An old man.
(c) In love.
(d) A toddler.

14. The ancient alien ghost explains that he and his party landed on Earth for what?
(a) To hide from their planet's police.
(b) To look for food.
(c) To replenish mineral supplies.
(d) To start a new colony.

15. The ancient alien ghost tells Richard that upon reading his article about music, he was what?
(a) Deeply moved.
(b) Reminded of his favorite song.
(c) Deeply disturbed.
(d) Reminded of his mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dirk get an unusual phone with big red push-buttons?

2. When Michael, possessed by the alien ghost, leaves the time machine and heads toward the tower, what is he wearing?

3. At the end of the story, Richard is able to make reservations for dinner with Susan at a very expensive, elite restaurant that's booked three weeks in advance by doing what?

4. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, what does Dirk say to Reg about his secret?

5. What haunted the ancient alien ghost as he haunted Earth?

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