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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long has Reg been at Cambridge?
(a) Two years.
(b) Two thousand years.
(c) Twenty years.
(d) Two hundred years.

2. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, what does Dirk say to Reg about his secret?
(a) Dirk already knows what it is.
(b) Reg could get arrested if the secret gets out.
(c) The whole world already knows it.
(d) It's impossible to figure out.

3. At the end of the book, when Richard hears Susan play the cello, he recognizes the music as:
(a) What he had heard on the alien mothership.
(b) What he had heard at the Coleridge dinner.
(c) What was playing in the elevator.
(d) What was playing on the taxi's radio.

4. Why does Dirk get an unusual phone with big red push-buttons?
(a) To make his agency look more reputable.
(b) He had thrown his previous phone out the window.
(c) It was on sale.
(d) So that a ghost can use it easily.

5. When Richard and Dirk go to Reg's home, Richard learns that:
(a) Susan has paid Reg a visit.
(b) The Electric Monk has paid Reg a visit.
(c) Dirk already knows Reg.
(d) Reg has completely lost his mind.

6. What does the ghost say about possessing Michael?
(a) No one will miss him.
(b) No harm will come to him.
(c) Michael is a twit who deserves to be haunted.
(d) Michael will never be the same again.

7. The ancient alien ghost explains that he came from where?
(a) Overtina.
(b) Belonani.
(c) Elabasa.
(d) Salaxala.

8. After waking up from unusual dreams, pondering the events of the night before, and realizing he has no lunch date planned, what does Michael Wenton-Weakes do?
(a) Takes out his cello and starts playing a sad tune.
(b) Calls Susan and asks if she's still seeing Richard.
(c) Writes a poem about Gordon Way.
(d) Goes upstairs and listens to music.

9. After Reg talks to Richard and Dirk and explains the whole business about the horse, the ghost, the face powder, and quantum jumps, he mentions that:
(a) The horse didn't want to leave.
(b) The ghost has left.
(c) The powder gave him a rash.
(d) Quantum jumps add years to one's life.

10. When Richard checks where he is so that he can tell Susan by phone, he sees a black tower next to a river of mud. When he asks where they are, what is Dirk's reply?
(a) "Outer space."
(b) "Iceland."
(c) "The past."
(d) "Bermuda."

11. What haunted the ancient alien ghost as he haunted Earth?
(a) Memories of his fellows who had died.
(b) Voices from television airwaves.
(c) Knowledge of his charming home planet.
(d) Ghosts of deceased presidents.

12. At the end of the book, Richard has a phone conversation with Reg during which he learns that:
(a) Reg took the Electric Monk and his horse back to their home.
(b) Dirk took the time machine into the future.
(c) Reg is no longer in love with Susan.
(d) Gordon managed to leave Reg a message before vanishing.

13. After Richard comes out of hypnosis, where does Dirk take him to talk about what he learned during the session?
(a) The pool.
(b) A tea shop.
(c) The canal.
(d) A pizza place.

14. In order to stop the alien ghost from preventing life from starting on Earth, Richard, Reg and Dirk travel forward to:
(a) The day man discovers fire.
(b) The year before the dodo becomes extinct.
(c) Clinton's era.
(d) Coleridge's era.

15. When Dirk brings up the matter of Richard's sofa, Richard is appalled, since he feels they should be talking about what instead?
(a) Time travel.
(b) Susan's new boyfriend.
(c) Wormholes.
(d) Gordon's death.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dirk do when a police officer is about to saw Richard's sofa in half?

2. What does Sergeant Gilks determine after listening to the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment?

3. Reg's explanation of his magic tricks reveals that he has been:

4. Reg's resistance to the poltergeist results in what?

5. The ghost explains that he was able to enter Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mind when he was what?

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