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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 and Dirk visit Reg, what does Dirk say to Reg about his secret?
(a) Reg could get arrested if the secret gets out.
(b) It's impossible to figure out.
(c) The whole world already knows it.
(d) Dirk already knows what it is.

2. After Dirk finally stops talking on the phone and welcomes Richard to his agency, he indicates that the light from the window works, gravity works, but with everything else, they simply have to:
(a) Hope for the best possible outcome.
(b) Close their eyes and imagine it.
(c) Pay the bill.
(d) Take their chances.

3. How does Dirk Cjelli make a name for himself while he's in college?
(a) Through his ability to sleep thirty hours straight.
(b) By inventing the precursor to the Electric Monk.
(c) Through his ability to read tea leaves.
(d) By denying stories about his psychic abilities.

4. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, why does Dirk prompt Richard to ask about the conjuring trick?
(a) Dirk is too shy to ask about it himself.
(b) To get Richard to break the ice between them.
(c) Dirk wants to learn how to do this trick.
(d) To get Reg to confirm what Dirk already knows.

5. The individual sitting with drunk men on the train full of party revelers is haunted by an ancient ghost who says that:
(a) His group came to Earth to build a paradise.
(b) His group tried to reach Venus but ended up on Earth instead.
(c) His group came to Earth to destroy it.
(d) His group tried to reach another galaxy but ended up on Earth instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens as the Electric Monk wonders what to do about Gordon, about his own missing horse, and about his belief systems?

2. In Chapter 7, when Gordon Way stops to fill his car with petrol, what else does he do?

3. Who had told Richard about L'Esprit d'Escalier?

4. When Richard wakes up at the start of Chapter 16, he decides to make it up to Susan by doing what?

5. Who tells Richard that Gordon was murdered?

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