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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Even though he's a ghost, Gordon grows tired of walking down a deserted road and wonders if he might be able to do what?
(a) Hitch a ride.
(b) Drink chai tea.
(c) Teleport automatically.
(d) Sprout wings and fly.

2. Once Dirk and Richard realize what the alien ghost wants, they set out to do what?
(a) Trap him.
(b) Help him.
(c) Dissolve him.
(d) Stop him.

3. With Richard at his detective agency, Dirk talks by phone to a woman whose cat he found and tries to convince her to do what?
(a) Recommend him to another client.
(b) Pay the bill.
(c) Feed her cat.
(d) Move to Moscow.

4. 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.

5. At first, Dirk Gently wants to help the roaming alien ghost using what?
(a) Laser.
(b) Time machine.
(c) Submarine.
(d) Fortune teller.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Richard MacDuff and private investigator Dirk Gently?

2. In Chapter 8, what does Richard MacDuff say has been stuck in his hallway for three weeks?

3. What happens when Richard scans Susan Way's answering machine tape in search of his own message?

4. In Chapter 12, as a lost Richard drives down the road trying to read his maps, he's also trying to place a phone call with whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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