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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 21-24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Michael Wenton-Weakes spends much of his time brooding over the loss of what?
(a) His magazine.
(b) His mansion.
(c) His girlfriend.
(d) His best friend.

2. When Susan listens to her answering machine tape and hears Gordon's rambling message, what does she do?
(a) Panics because Gordon seems to be in trouble.
(b) Wonders who switched tapes on her.
(c) Cuts the message short and gives the tape to Richard.
(d) Laughs at her brother's crazy antics.

3. Dirk insists on talking about Richard's sofa with him because he firmly believes that:
(a) Someone has hidden a message inside the sofa.
(b) All things are fundamentally interconnected.
(c) All conversations lead to answers.
(d) The sofa is an alien in disguise.

4. As the Electric Monk sits atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, he incorrectly believes that the valley is what?
(a) Unnavigable.
(b) Bottomless.
(c) A deep river.
(d) A giant worm.

5. After Richard sees the horse in Reg's bathroom, he leaves and knocks on a neighbor's door. Who answers?
(a) His ex-girlfriend.
(b) The professor nobody has spoken to in years.
(c) His ex-boss.
(d) The little girl who kicked the table at the Coleridge dinner.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter 12, after Richard swerves wildly, slams on the brakes, and skids to a stop, he finds himself on the road:

3. When Michael Wenton-Weakes wakes up in a strange mood, he realizes that he had just dreamed about what?

4. After Dirk Gently calls Richard and scolds him for going to the window and allowing himself to be photographed, he tells Richard to meet him where?

5. In college, why do fellow students start to wine and dine Dirk?

(see the answer key)

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