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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 6-8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In college, why do fellow students start to wine and dine Dirk?
(a) To learn more about future exams.
(b) They need his help in solving crime cases.
(c) To keep him from doing well in his classes.
(d) They enjoy his company.

2. While Gordon Way drives his car and leaves a lengthy phone message for Susan, what does he hear?
(a) An explosion to the west.
(b) A loud siren all around him.
(c) A noise coming from the car trunk.
(d) A huge jet flying overhead.

3. Richard writes Anthem, a financial spreadsheet that translates business financial numbers, into what?
(a) Colors.
(b) Health predictions.
(c) Plain English.
(d) Music.

4. How old is the alien ghost that roams Earth filled with guilt and loneliness?
(a) Millions of years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Dozens of days.
(d) Ninety-nine billion eight hundred million nine hundred thousand.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At first, Dirk Gently wants to help the roaming alien ghost using what?

2. When he was living, what did the alien ghost driven to madness hope to accomplish on Earth?

3. How does Reg amuse a little girl named Sarah who is bored at the dinner party in Chapter 4?

4. When Richard talks with Reg in Chapter 8, he indicates that he's in a relationship with whom?

5. As the Electric Monk sits atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, he incorrectly believes that the valley is what?

(see the answer key)

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