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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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?
(a) Susan.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Reg.
(d) Gordon.

2. As he searches for a door in the valley, the Electric Monk is temporarily distracted by a what?
(a) Rock painting.
(b) Flying saucer.
(c) Giant scorpion.
(d) Blue horse.

3. When Reg prepares tea for Richard, he ends up spilling it all over the floor. What causes him to do this?
(a) Time warp.
(b) Poltergeist.
(c) He's startled by a noise.
(d) His hands fell asleep.

4. When Richard calls Susan to apologize for forgetting to bring her to the college dinner, he suggests they do what?
(a) Split up for a while and think things over.
(b) Get away to someplace sunny for a weekend or week.
(c) Get some fish and chips and watch a movie.
(d) Forget the whole thing happened and start over.

5. When Richard returns from doing an errand, he finds Dirk on the phone defending a trip to Bermuda, claiming that while he was there he successfully did what?
(a) Traced the interconnectedness of all things.
(b) Found nineteen missing cats.
(c) Reprogrammed thirteen Electronic Monks.
(d) Solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.

6. 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) Throw files out the window.
(c) Steal Dirk's stapler.
(d) Storm out.

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

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

9. After Gordon dies and looks at his body, what upsets him?
(a) The big hole in his chest.
(b) His clothes don't match.
(c) The stupid expression on his face.
(d) His jewelry is missing.

10. How old is the alien ghost that roams Earth filled with guilt and loneliness?
(a) Millions of years.
(b) Dozens of days.
(c) Three years.
(d) Ninety-nine billion eight hundred million nine hundred thousand.

11. When Susan walks into her apartment after Richard has listened to parts of her answering machine tape, what does she do?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Drops her bag of groceries.
(c) Throws her purse at him.
(d) Hugs him.

12. After Michael Wenton-Weakes' father dies, who takes over the family publishing business?
(a) Dirk Gently.
(b) Michael's brother.
(c) Michael's mother.
(d) Richard MacDuff.

13. When Richard leafs through the phone book looking for Dirk Gently's phone number, he:
(a) Finds it under Dirk's former name.
(b) Finds twelve different numbers under the same name.
(c) Discovers that pages are missing from the phone book.
(d) Has trouble finding it.

14. The author notes that even though a rider may sit on a horse all day long and not think about the creature, the one being sat upon:
(a) Wants a break now and again.
(b) Thinks the one sitting upon it is selfish and stubborn.
(c) Would like the roles to be reversed.
(d) Can't help but form an opinion of the one sitting upon it.

15. In this novel, what starts life on primordial Earth?
(a) A stray soda can.
(b) A sneezing astronaut.
(c) A bacterium traveling back in time.
(d) An alien's accident.

Short Answer Questions

1. The author opens Chapter 7 indicating that Gordon Way is not aware that this day is to be what?

2. Who had told Richard about L'Esprit d'Escalier?

3. As the Electric Monk looks across a vast valley, he begins to imagine that he'll find a door here leading to where?

4. Gordon's ghost wakes up from his fainting spell by the sound of what?

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

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