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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who sits next to three drunk men on a train that is full of party revelers from a wedding?
(a) Reg.
(b) Michael.
(c) Susan.
(d) Dirk.

3. What does Dirk do when a police officer is about to saw Richard's sofa in half?
(a) Faints in order to cause a distraction.
(b) Sends the officer back through time.
(c) Transforms the saw into a butter knife.
(d) Orders him to guard the sofa instead.

4. When Reg tells his story to Richard and Dirk, he says he's so old that:
(a) He makes the chancellor look young.
(b) He's seen the beginning and end of countless nations.
(c) His gray hair has turned gray twenty times over.
(d) He doesn't remember who he is.

5. When Michael Wenton-Weakes digs into his wastebasket, he pulls out a copy of the magazine Fathom and finds what?
(a) Article about Susan.
(b) Ad for Dirk's agency.
(c) Article written by Richard.
(d) Ad for Electronic Monks.

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

7. After Gordon's death, how does Dirk manage to get into Richard's apartment?
(a) Using his invisibility shield.
(b) Hypnotizing the security guard.
(c) Fast-talking his way past the police.
(d) Shipping himself in a package.

8. Why did the alien's ship that landed on Earth several billion years ago explode?
(a) Lightning struck the ship.
(b) The Electric Monk pushed the wrong button.
(c) The engines weren't ready.
(d) Nobody knows.

9. Reg's resistance to the poltergeist results in what?
(a) Supernatural activity.
(b) A broken, unusable time machine.
(c) A twisted knot in the time-space continuum.
(d) The college board wanting to fire him.

10. Reg explains to Richard, Dirk, and the alien ghost that the dodo would not have become extinct had he not done what?
(a) Moved the horse out of his bathroom.
(b) Fallen in love with Susan.
(c) Saved a prehistoric fish.
(d) Placed the salt shaker inside the old Greek pot.

11. When Richard visits Susan to comfort her after Gordon's death, the phone rings; Richard answers it and hears what?
(a) Loud electric guitar.
(b) Rhythmic clicking.
(c) Cats meowing.
(d) Faint windy noise.

12. During Richard's phone conversation with Susan about Gordon's murder, he learns that the police:
(a) Have a long list of suspects.
(b) Now suspect Dirk.
(c) Are ruling it a suicide.
(d) No longer suspect him.

13. What three magic words has the Electric Monk been saying to people after listening to their troubles?
(a) "I believe you."
(b) "Time to go."
(c) "You are right."
(d) "All is well."

14. Dirk insists on talking about Richard's sofa with him because he firmly believes that:
(a) All conversations lead to answers.
(b) The sofa is an alien in disguise.
(c) All things are fundamentally interconnected.
(d) Someone has hidden a message inside the sofa.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Detective Inspector Mason arrives at Richard's apartment, what does he order police officers to do?

2. After Dirk saves the whole human race from extinction, what does he crave?

3. After Dirk saves the world, Richard asks:

4. Who was trying to use Dirk's agency telephone to make a call to Susan?

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

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