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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard calls L'Esprit d'Escalier, what does he find out?
(a) Reservations have to be made three weeks in advance.
(b) After a third robbery, the jewelry store has shut down.
(c) The cruise ship is retired from the fleet.
(d) Nobody carries this computer model any longer.

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

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

4. 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) Storm out.
(b) Throw files out the window.
(c) Shatter Dirk's tea cup.
(d) Steal Dirk's stapler.

5. Who is Michael Wenton-Weakes' father?
(a) Judge Barton.
(b) Sir Rothington.
(c) Count Olen.
(d) Lord Magna.

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

7. In Chapter 3, why is Susan Way angry with her boyfriend?
(a) He stood her up again.
(b) He ate her pizza.
(c) He got the pay raise she was supposed to get.
(d) He forgot her birthday.

8. What does the roaming alien ghost who is driven mad with guilt and loneliness want?
(a) To go back in time to correct a mistake he made.
(b) A meeting with the president of the universe.
(c) To jump into another dimension where his friends are.
(d) A date with the female of his dreams.

9. In Dirk's office, he and Richard talk about Schrodinger's Cat, which is what?
(a) A collage made of discarded computer parts.
(b) A cat cloned three hundred fifty-two times.
(c) An illustration of probabilities at the quantum level.
(d) A French restaurant Gordon frequents.

10. Reg explains to Richard that his position was created by King George the Third to answer what?
(a) Where to go for emergencies.
(b) Which came first, chickens or ostriches.
(c) How much tea one person can drink.
(d) Why things happen in sequence.

11. In Chapter 13, who is the person spying with the binoculars?
(a) Richard.
(b) Susan.
(c) Reg.
(d) Dirk.

12. As a ghostly Gordon makes his way to his cabin, he wonders what will happen to his what?
(a) Sister.
(b) Company.
(c) Car.
(d) Body.

13. At the dinner in Chapter 4, why does Sarah pass around a pot she found in Greece?
(a) She's secretly sending a message to Richard.
(b) She's collecting money for a Greek school.
(c) She wants to know if it's worth anything.
(d) She wants someone to translate the strange writing inside.

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

15. What does Richard do right after Reg explains there's a horse in the upstairs bathroom?
(a) Calls his attorney.
(b) Runs away.
(c) Slaps him.
(d) Tackles him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who founded WayForward Technologies?

2. Richard accuses Dirk of doing what?

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

4. At the start of Chapter 3, what is Susan Way waiting for?

5. At the start of Chapter 13, someone scans the sky with his binoculars and spots something that appears to be what?

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