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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter 8, what does Richard MacDuff say has been stuck in his hallway for three weeks?
(a) Piano.
(b) Sofa.
(c) Washing machine.
(d) Queen bed.

2. Dirk is arrested and thrown out of college for:
(a) Being too smart.
(b) Cheating during finals.
(c) Ridiculing the dean.
(d) Stealing food.

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

4. What command does the college porter give to a "strange priest" who turns out to be the Electric Monk?
(a) Shoot off.
(b) Get lost.
(c) Shove off.
(d) Go fly a kite.

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

6. In college, why do fellow students start to wine and dine Dirk?
(a) To learn more about future exams.
(b) To keep him from doing well in his classes.
(c) They need his help in solving crime cases.
(d) They enjoy his company.

7. 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:
(a) Take their chances.
(b) Close their eyes and imagine it.
(c) Hope for the best possible outcome.
(d) Pay the bill.

8. What is the relationship between Richard MacDuff and private investigator Dirk Gently?
(a) Richard is Dirk's hundred-year-old mentor.
(b) Richard is Dirk's robot assistant.
(c) Richard is Dirk's old college friend.
(d) Richard is Dirk's long-lost twin brother.

9. 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) Reprogrammed thirteen Electronic Monks.
(b) Traced the interconnectedness of all things.
(c) Solved the mystery of the Bermuda Triangle.
(d) Found nineteen missing cats.

10. When Richard wakes up at the start of Chapter 16, he decides to make it up to Susan by doing what?
(a) Taking her on an expensive cruise.
(b) Buying her an expensive computer.
(c) Taking her to an expensive restaurant.
(d) Buying her expensive jewelry.

11. What happens after the Electric Monk and his horse walk through a small wooden door in the valley?
(a) The world turns blue.
(b) An angel who had been watching, flies away.
(c) A figure who was hiding appears and heads to the door.
(d) The horse turns into a dog.

12. After Gordon's ghost arrives at his seven-bedroom cottage, he faints upon discovering what in the kitchen?
(a) His missing body.
(b) Richard's tape recorder.
(c) Susan's cello.
(d) His missing cat.

13. Richard accuses Dirk of doing what?
(a) Killing Gordon and stealing the body.
(b) Changing his name to avoid paying taxes.
(c) Incorrectly reprogramming Electric Monks.
(d) Running a scam and stealing old ladies' money.

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

15. As Gordon heads towards his cabin, he's disappointed that as a ghost, he can't do what?
(a) Leave this town.
(b) Float or drift.
(c) Pass through walls.
(d) Wail or moan.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the Electric Monk sits perfectly still atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, how does everything looks to him?

2. Urban Chronotis is Regius Professor of what?

3. In Chapter 3, why is Susan Way angry with her boyfriend?

4. When Richard calls Susan to apologize for forgetting to bring her to the college dinner, he suggests they do what?

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

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