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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter 4, Richard MacDuff attends a dinner held in honor of whom?
(a) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(b) King George the Third.
(c) Dirk Cjelli.
(d) The Electric Monk.

4. 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) Move to Moscow.
(c) Recommend him to another client.
(d) Feed her cat.

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

6. Why does Dirk offer Richard his services as a detective?
(a) Police suspect Richard of stealing a horse.
(b) Police suspect Richard of being involved in Gordon's murder.
(c) Richard's cat has been missing since Easter.
(d) Richard is afraid Susan is seeing Michael behind his back.

7. 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) Laughs at her brother's crazy antics.
(c) Panics because Gordon seems to be in trouble.
(d) Wonders who switched tapes on her.

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

9. 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 finish her dinner.
(b) She can't finish her work.
(c) She can't reach Gordon.
(d) She can't reach Susan.

10. 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) Tries to talk into the phone.
(b) Taps "SOS" in code.
(c) Hangs up so the killer doesn't find her.
(d) Tosses the phone over the cliff.

11. 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?
(a) Library.
(b) Pizza place.
(c) Hospital.
(d) Coffee shop.

12. The Electric Monk has taken Gordon's body back to his cottage as a sacred duty, but he doesn't understand why Gordon didn't get back up the way:
(a) His horse gets up after being shot.
(b) People get up after sleeping.
(c) Electric Monks always get back up.
(d) People do on TV in his world.

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

14. What happens to the glowing object that is stuck on primordial Earth?
(a) Explodes.
(b) Time travels.
(c) Crystalizes.
(d) Freezes.

15. How does Reg amuse a little girl named Sarah who is bored at the dinner party in Chapter 4?
(a) Juggling five fruits at the same time.
(b) Singing silly songs.
(c) Doing mathematical tricks.
(d) Making things disappear and reappear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Dirk is arrested and thrown out of college for:

2. The Electric Monk is:

3. When Richard leaves Reg's place after seeing a horse in the bathroom, he notices that:

4. During his finals, Dirk makes a bet to try to disprove what?

5. As the Electric Monk's belief in a door in the valley solidifies into the notion that the Door is The Way, what happens?

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