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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Reg amuse a little girl named Sarah who is bored at the dinner party in Chapter 4?
(a) Singing silly songs.
(b) Juggling five fruits at the same time.
(c) Doing mathematical tricks.
(d) Making things disappear and reappear.

2. When the Electric Monk sits perfectly still atop his horse in a valley on a foreign world, how does everything looks to him?
(a) Friendly.
(b) Pink.
(c) Hostile.
(d) Gold.

3. What is the relationship between Richard MacDuff and private investigator Dirk Gently?
(a) Richard is Dirk's old college friend.
(b) Richard is Dirk's hundred-year-old mentor.
(c) Richard is Dirk's robot assistant.
(d) Richard is Dirk's long-lost twin brother.

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

5. How does Dirk Cjelli make a name for himself while he's in college?
(a) Through his ability to read tea leaves.
(b) By inventing the precursor to the Electric Monk.
(c) By denying stories about his psychic abilities.
(d) Through his ability to sleep thirty hours straight.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Richard apologizes to Susan and she vents some of her anger, she tells him she has to work that weekend and:

2. In this novel, what starts life on primordial Earth?

3. When the Coleridge dinner finally ends, where does Richard MacDuff go?

4. While Richard drives and leaves a lengthy message of apology on Susan's answering machine, he swerves because he sees what?

5. What does Kate Anselm, a programmer, tell Richard when she calls him as he's hunting for Dirk Gently's phone number?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Richard locate Dirk Gently's detective agency?

2. How does Richard discover that his boss, Gordon, has been murdered?

3. Why is the Electric Monk confused after killing Gordon?

4. Why does Dirk Gently get kicked out of college?

5. By the end of the first chapter, what appears to have happened to the tower?

6. Why does Richard dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?

7. Explain what happens after Gordon's ghost arrives at his cottage.

8. As a ghostly Gordon makes his way to his cottage, what does he ponder?

9. As Chapter 4 opens, two men are walking towards a dinner on campus honoring Samuel T. Coleridge. Who are these two men?

10. What does Susan decide to do in Chapter 3 after her boyfriend fails to show up?

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