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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Electric Monk?
(a) An imaginary friend manifesting itself as electricity.
(b) A robotic spiritual cook.
(c) A device that believes things for people.
(d) A thief posing as a religious monk.

2. How is Gordon Way related to Susan, the cellist?
(a) Uncle.
(b) Father.
(c) Son.
(d) Brother.

3. Dirk is arrested and thrown out of college for:
(a) Being too smart.
(b) Cheating during finals.
(c) Ridiculing the dean.
(d) Stealing food.

4. After Richard sees the horse in Reg's bathroom, he leaves and knocks on a neighbor's door. Who answers?
(a) His ex-boss.
(b) His ex-girlfriend.
(c) The professor nobody has spoken to in years.
(d) The little girl who kicked the table at the Coleridge dinner.

5. How does the horse regard the Electric Monk that rides it?
(a) It is eager to follow the rider's orders.
(b) It admires and respects the rider greatly.
(c) It feels it is infinitely smarter and more attractive than the rider.
(d) It is tired of putting up with the rider's silly situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author notes that even though a rider may sit on a horse all day long and not think about the creature, the one being sat upon:

2. When a client calls Dirk to complain about charges, Dirk writes a note to Richard asking him to go get what?

3. When the Electric Monk sits perfectly still atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, how does everything looks to him?

4. As a light rain falls on primordial Earth, what is stuck as a river of mud flows past it?

5. In Chapter 12, after Richard goes home and pours himself a brandy, the author says there are three reasons he starts to shake, including what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of phone conversations does Dirk have at his detective agency?

2. In Chapter 2, why is the Electric Monk completely still as he sits atop his horse?

3. How does the author utilize foreshadowing with the character Gordon Way?

4. Why and how does Reg entertain Sarah, a bored little girl attending the Coleridge dinner?

5. By the end of the first chapter, what appears to have happened to the tower?

6. What happens when Gordon Way gets out of his car to check his trunk?

7. How does Richard discover that his boss, Gordon, has been murdered?

8. Describe the range of emotions Susan experiences in Chapter 3.

9. Describe the mysterious tower the author writes about as the book opens.

10. What does Gordon Way do on the last day of his life?

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