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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. During Richard's phone conversation with Susan about Gordon's murder, he learns that the police:
(a) No longer suspect him.
(b) Are ruling it a suicide.
(c) Now suspect Dirk.
(d) Have a long list of suspects.

2. After Richard has tampered with Susan's answering machine, she walks in with whom?
(a) Jonathan.
(b) Reg.
(c) Michael.
(d) Dirk.

3. 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) Comparing fingerprints and footprints to find similarities between cases.
(c) Finding a pattern in the holistic interconnectedness of all things.
(d) Guessing why horses mysteriously end up in bathrooms.

4. After finding the address for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and going there, Richard arrives in time to see Dirk's unpaid secretary do what?
(a) Shatter Dirk's tea cup.
(b) Storm out.
(c) Throw files out the window.
(d) Steal Dirk's stapler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. After Gordon's death, how does Dirk manage to get into Richard's apartment?

3. After Dirk finally stops talking on the phone and welcomes Richard to his agency, he indicates that the light from the window works, gravity works, but with everything else, they simply have to:

4. In Chapter 4, Richard MacDuff attends a dinner held in honor of whom?

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

(see the answer key)

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