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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Richard sees the horse in Reg's bathroom, he leaves and knocks on a neighbor's door. Who answers?
(a) The professor nobody has spoken to in years.
(b) The little girl who kicked the table at the Coleridge dinner.
(c) His ex-boss.
(d) His ex-girlfriend.

2. Richard writes Anthem, a financial spreadsheet that translates business financial numbers, into what?
(a) Colors.
(b) Plain English.
(c) Health predictions.
(d) Music.

3. When he was living, what did the alien ghost driven to madness hope to accomplish on Earth?
(a) Establish a utopian paradise.
(b) Open an etiquette school.
(c) Meet the smartest human on the planet.
(d) Change the value of pi.

4. When a dead Gordon realizes that the phone line is still open and connected to his sister's answering machine, what does he do?
(a) Tosses the phone over the cliff.
(b) Taps "SOS" in code.
(c) Tries to talk into the phone.
(d) Hangs up so the killer doesn't find her.

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

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

7. When the Electric Monk sits perfectly still atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, how does everything looks to him?
(a) Hostile.
(b) Pink.
(c) Gold.
(d) Friendly.

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

9. As the Electric Monk continues to stare at the presumed pinkness of the valley below him, what comes to his mind?
(a) Fear that he will never move again.
(b) Doubt regarding its pinkness.
(c) The idea that pink is a pretty color.
(d) The recollection that he hasn't eaten in months.

10. At first, Dirk Gently wants to help the roaming alien ghost using what?
(a) Time machine.
(b) Laser.
(c) Fortune teller.
(d) Submarine.

11. Even though he's a ghost, Gordon grows tired of walking down a deserted road and wonders if he might be able to do what?
(a) Drink chai tea.
(b) Teleport automatically.
(c) Hitch a ride.
(d) Sprout wings and fly.

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

13. How does Gordon Way die at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Chokes on a cracker.
(b) By shotgun.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Falling off a cliff.

14. When Gordon Way leaves a message on Susan's answering machine, what does he request of her?
(a) To get Dirk on a case immediately.
(b) To get Michael to meet with him the following day.
(c) To get Richard working in earnest on Anthem.
(d) To get Reg to stop doing his conspicuous tricks.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded WayForward Technologies?

2. What does Kate Anselm, a programmer, tell Richard when she calls him as he's hunting for Dirk Gently's phone number?

3. In Chapter 12, after Richard swerves wildly, slams on the brakes, and skids to a stop, he finds himself on the road:

4. After Richard apologizes to Susan and she vents some of her anger, she tells him she has to work that weekend and:

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

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