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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 13, who breaks into someone's apartment?
(a) Susan.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Richard.
(d) Reg.

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

5. When a client calls Dirk to complain about charges, Dirk writes a note to Richard asking him to go get what?
(a) His secretary.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) His briefcase.

6. What does Kate Anselm, a programmer, tell Richard when she calls him as he's hunting for Dirk Gently's phone number?
(a) She can't reach Gordon.
(b) She can't reach Susan.
(c) She can't finish her dinner.
(d) She can't finish her work.

7. Who tells Richard that Gordon was murdered?
(a) Reg.
(b) Susan.
(c) Michael.
(d) Dirk.

8. While Richard drives and leaves a lengthy message of apology on Susan's answering machine, he swerves because he sees what?
(a) A purple spaceship.
(b) A horse and strange-looking monk.
(c) Reg's time machine.
(d) The specter of Gordon Way.

9. 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) Pay the bill.
(b) Feed her cat.
(c) Recommend him to another client.
(d) Move to Moscow.

10. Why does Richard MacDuff dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?
(a) Michael got Richard fired.
(b) He is wealthy and feels sorry for himself.
(c) He is arrogant and has no conscience.
(d) Michael dumped Richard's sister.

11. One of Dirk's roommates notices that he's reciting what while he sleeps?
(a) Phone numbers of everyone on campus.
(b) Songs written thousands of years ago.
(c) Ingredients of secret recipes.
(d) Questions on upcoming midterms.

12. At the start of Chapter 13, someone scans the sky with his binoculars and spots something that appears to be what?
(a) Shooting star.
(b) Alien spaceship.
(c) Secret parachute landing.
(d) Amateur burglar attempt.

13. When Richard sees what appears to be someone lugging a body into a field, he dismisses this as merely what?
(a) A farmer carrying a sackful of something nutritious.
(b) A man dressed as Santa bringing home presents.
(c) A landscaper carrying a bag of clippings.
(d) An actor practicing his improv.

14. The Electric Monk is:
(a) A human that looks like an alien.
(b) A machine that looks human.
(c) A human that looks like a machine.
(d) An alien that looks like a machine.

15. 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) His ex-boss.
(c) The professor nobody has spoken to in years.
(d) The little girl who kicked the table at the Coleridge dinner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the roaming alien ghost who is driven mad with guilt and loneliness want?

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

3. 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?

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

5. 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:

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