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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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) The officer who found Richard on the road.
(d) Michael's half brother.

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

4. When Michael, possessed by the alien ghost, leaves the time machine and heads toward the tower, what is he wearing?
(a) Angel wings.
(b) Space suit.
(c) Scuba gear.
(d) Red tie.

5. 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:
(a) Need to board an interdimensional limo.
(b) Live primarily on Jupiter.
(c) Fail to understand time.
(d) Exist like wave patterns.

6. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, why does Dirk prompt Richard to ask about the conjuring trick?
(a) Dirk is too shy to ask about it himself.
(b) To get Richard to break the ice between them.
(c) Dirk wants to learn how to do this trick.
(d) To get Reg to confirm what Dirk already knows.

7. What does Sergeant Gilks determine after listening to the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment?
(a) Gordon's time of death.
(b) Richard's reason for wanting Gordon dead.
(c) Dirk's connection to Gordon.
(d) The reason for Reg's reluctance to talk about Gordon.

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

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

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

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

12. While Richard tries to explain to Susan who his friend Dirk Gently is, who arrives?
(a) Michael.
(b) Reg.
(c) Sergeant Gilks.
(d) Dirk.

13. Why does Richard call Susan after Dirk gives him the details of Gordon's death a second time?
(a) Richard doesn't believe Dirk.
(b) Susan and Richard are supposed to be on a date.
(c) Dirk tells Richard that Susan is looking for him.
(d) Richard fears for Susan's life.

14. When the time machine leaves the rain forest and heads back to Cambridge, a knock on the door reveals Michael standing there with what?
(a) A wheelbarrow.
(b) A tray of sushi.
(c) Large bowling pins.
(d) Scuba equipment.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Reg's main reason for traveling through time?

2. At the end of the story, Richard is able to make reservations for dinner with Susan at a very expensive, elite restaurant that's booked three weeks in advance by doing what?

3. The ancient alien ghost explains that he came from where?

4. When Richard visits Susan to comfort her after Gordon's death, the phone rings; Richard answers it and hears what?

5. What does the ghost say about possessing Michael?

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