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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 28-30.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Reg's resistance to the poltergeist results in what?
(a) A broken, unusable time machine.
(b) A twisted knot in the time-space continuum.
(c) The college board wanting to fire him.
(d) Supernatural activity.

3. At the dinner in Chapter 4, why does Sarah pass around a pot she found in Greece?
(a) She wants to know if it's worth anything.
(b) She's collecting money for a Greek school.
(c) She wants someone to translate the strange writing inside.
(d) She's secretly sending a message to Richard.

4. Who is Michael Wenton-Weakes' father?
(a) Sir Rothington.
(b) Lord Magna.
(c) Count Olen.
(d) Judge Barton.

5. 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) Finding a pattern in the holistic interconnectedness of all things.
(d) Comparing fingerprints and footprints to find similarities between cases.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 12, after Richard goes home and pours himself a brandy, the author says there are three reasons he starts to shake, including what?

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

3. When Richard goes to Susan's place to comfort her after her brother's death, he finds her doing what?

4. How does the horse regard the Electric Monk that rides it?

5. Michael Wenton-Weakes spends much of his time brooding over the loss of what?

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