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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16-17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the relationship between Richard MacDuff and private investigator Dirk Gently?
(a) Richard is Dirk's hundred-year-old mentor.
(b) Richard is Dirk's long-lost twin brother.
(c) Richard is Dirk's robot assistant.
(d) Richard is Dirk's old college friend.

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

3. When the Coleridge dinner finally ends, where does Richard MacDuff go?
(a) Gordon's temporary office.
(b) His own temporary living quarters.
(c) Reg's small apartment.
(d) Dirk's small office.

4. During his finals, Dirk makes a bet to try to disprove what?
(a) Rumors of his psychic abilities.
(b) The necessity of Electric Monks.
(c) The theory of relativity.
(d) Rumors of tampered recipes.

5. The Electric Monk has taken Gordon's body back to his cottage as a sacred duty, but he doesn't understand why Gordon didn't get back up the way:
(a) People get up after sleeping.
(b) People do on TV in his world.
(c) Electric Monks always get back up.
(d) His horse gets up after being shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Electric Monk sits perfectly still atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, how does everything looks to him?

2. After Michael Wenton-Weakes' father dies, who takes over the family publishing business?

3. Why does the founder of WayForward Technologies like to call people and leave long, rambling messages on their answering machines?

4. When a dead Gordon realizes that the phone line is still open and connected to his sister's answering machine, what does he do?

5. After college and after several failed jobs, Richard MacDuff has achieved great success in what field?

(see the answer key)

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