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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

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) Comparing fingerprints and footprints to find similarities between cases.
(b) Tracking down and reprogramming Electronic Monks.
(c) Finding a pattern in the holistic interconnectedness of all things.
(d) Guessing why horses mysteriously end up in bathrooms.

2. When Richard calls L'Esprit d'Escalier, what does he find out?
(a) Nobody carries this computer model any longer.
(b) After a third robbery, the jewelry store has shut down.
(c) The cruise ship is retired from the fleet.
(d) Reservations have to be made three weeks in advance.

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

4. Why does Richard start to fall asleep at the dinner in Chapter 6?
(a) A reader is reciting a poem.
(b) The professor has hypnotized him.
(c) He's eaten too much.
(d) Harp music is playing.

5. One of Dirk's roommates notices that he's reciting what while he sleeps?
(a) Ingredients of secret recipes.
(b) Songs written thousands of years ago.
(c) Phone numbers of everyone on campus.
(d) Questions on upcoming midterms.

Short Answer Questions

1. While Gordon Way drives his car and leaves a lengthy phone message for Susan, what does he hear?

2. How does Gordon Way die at the end of Chapter 7?

3. When the Coleridge dinner finally ends, where does Richard MacDuff go?

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

5. At the end of Chapter 17, what happens as the horse relishes its newfound freedom?

(see the answer key)

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