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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 leafs through the phone book looking for Dirk Gently's phone number, he:
(a) Finds twelve different numbers under the same name.
(b) Discovers that pages are missing from the phone book.
(c) Finds it under Dirk's former name.
(d) Has trouble finding it.

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

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

4. When Michael Wenton-Weakes wakes up in a strange mood, he realizes that he had just dreamed about what?
(a) Sand, sun, and surf.
(b) Horses, pastures, and freedom.
(c) Radios, mixed messages, and purple flowers.
(d) Mud, loneliness, and strange crawling creatures.

5. Who tells Richard that Gordon was murdered?
(a) Susan.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Reg.
(d) Michael.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Gordon Way related to Susan, the cellist?

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

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

4. While Richard drives and leaves a lengthy message of apology on Susan's answering machine, he swerves because he sees what?

5. When Dirk questions Richard about information revealed under hypnosis, he first asks about what?

(see the answer key)

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