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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) "The past."
(c) "Iceland."
(d) "Bermuda."

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

4. Since Richard can't go to the police, Dirk decides to do what?
(a) Hypnotize Richard to learn the facts.
(b) Hide Richard in the basement.
(c) Listen to the messages on Gordon's answering machine.
(d) Get more details from the Electronic Monk.

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

6. Richard presses Reg to explain how he got the salt shaker into the old Greek pot, and Reg replies that:
(a) He hasn't the slightest idea how he did it.
(b) It would take months to explain it.
(c) He got the man who made the pot to put it in.
(d) He mentally rearranged the atoms.

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

8. In Chapter 28, Reg explains that for several months he hadn't been using the time machine because:
(a) He was afraid to go back and face his nemesis.
(b) He needed to fix a broken circuit.
(c) He didn't want to arouse suspicion.
(d) He felt something had been trying to force him to use it.

9. Who was trying to use Dirk's agency telephone to make a call to Susan?
(a) Richard.
(b) Gordon's ghost.
(c) The alient ghost.
(d) Michael.

10. At Richard's place, Detective Inspector Mason is accompanied by Sergeant Gilks, who is:
(a) Gordon's former college roommate.
(b) The person who got Dirk kicked out of college.
(c) Michael's half brother.
(d) The officer who found Richard on the road.

11. The individual sitting with drunk men on the train full of party revelers is haunted by an ancient ghost who says that:
(a) His group tried to reach Venus but ended up on Earth instead.
(b) His group tried to reach another galaxy but ended up on Earth instead.
(c) His group came to Earth to destroy it.
(d) His group came to Earth to build a paradise.

12. Reg's explanation of his magic tricks reveals that he has been:
(a) Hallucinating.
(b) Abducted by aliens.
(c) Time traveling.
(d) Possessed by a ghost.

13. After receiving the vital piece of information from Richard about a murder, Dirk realizes that the alien ghost was able to possess Michael because:
(a) Knew Gordon well.
(b) Knew Ross well.
(c) Both missed Michael's magazine.
(d) Both had the intent to kill.

14. Where does Reg go to get face powder to conceal his tan?
(a) A parallel universe.
(b) Another planet.
(c) The local pharmacy.
(d) The campus theater.

15. Dirk hears Gordon's ghost on the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment. What does the ghost want?
(a) To leave a message for Reg's associate.
(b) To have someone search his cottage.
(c) To have someone search his car.
(d) To leave a message on Richard's answering machine.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Richard and Dirk talk with the ancient alien ghost, trying to fully understand his story, Richard comes up with the theory that perhaps ghosts:

2. When the engines of the alien spaceship were damaged upon landing, the now-ghost had sent the Electric Monk out to do what?

3. At the end of the book, when Richard hears Susan play the cello, he recognizes the music as:

4. While Richard tries to explain to Susan who his friend Dirk Gently is, who arrives?

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

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