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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 18-20.

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

2. As he searches for a door in the valley, the Electric Monk is temporarily distracted by a what?
(a) Blue horse.
(b) Flying saucer.
(c) Giant scorpion.
(d) Rock painting.

3. As the Electric Monk's belief in a door in the valley solidifies into the notion that the Door is The Way, what happens?
(a) His horse disappears.
(b) Snow starts to fall.
(c) The world turns purple.
(d) He finds the door.

4. When Reg prepares tea for Richard, he ends up spilling it all over the floor. What causes him to do this?
(a) He's startled by a noise.
(b) Time warp.
(c) Poltergeist.
(d) His hands fell asleep.

5. Reg explains to Richard that his position was created by King George the Third to answer what?
(a) Which came first, chickens or ostriches.
(b) Where to go for emergencies.
(c) Why things happen in sequence.
(d) How much tea one person can drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Richard calls Susan to apologize for forgetting to bring her to the college dinner, he suggests they do what?

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

3. After Richard sees the horse in Reg's bathroom, he leaves and knocks on a neighbor's door. Who answers?

4. 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?

5. What kind of car does Richard MacDuff drive?

(see the answer key)

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