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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. After a dead Gordon decides to try to get to his cabin, what does he notice about his body?
(a) It's missing.
(b) It doesn't look like him.
(c) It has moved twenty feet.
(d) It's twitching.

2. With Richard at his detective agency, Dirk talks by phone to a woman whose cat he found and tries to convince her to do what?
(a) Recommend him to another client.
(b) Feed her cat.
(c) Pay the bill.
(d) Move to Moscow.

3. What does Richard do right after Reg explains there's a horse in the upstairs bathroom?
(a) Slaps him.
(b) Calls his attorney.
(c) Runs away.
(d) Tackles him.

4. When a dead Gordon realizes that the phone line is still open and connected to his sister's answering machine, what does he do?
(a) Taps "SOS" in code.
(b) Hangs up so the killer doesn't find her.
(c) Tosses the phone over the cliff.
(d) Tries to talk into the phone.

5. When Richard calls L'Esprit d'Escalier, what does he find out?
(a) After a third robbery, the jewelry store has shut down.
(b) Nobody carries this computer model any longer.
(c) The cruise ship is retired from the fleet.
(d) Reservations have to be made three weeks in advance.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the relationship between Richard MacDuff and private investigator Dirk Gently?

2. At the end of Chapter 17, what happens as the horse relishes its newfound freedom?

3. Who does Michael Wenton-Weakes blame for stealing his magazine?

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

5. Dirk is arrested and thrown out of college for:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the little girl, Sarah, pass around a pot at the Coleridge dinner?

3. Why does Richard dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?

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

5. What types of phone conversations does Dirk have at his detective agency?

6. How does Gordon Way, founder of WayForward Technologies, flesh out his numerous business ideas?

7. What belief system does the Electric Monk subscribe to after he starts doubting that the valley before him is pink?

8. After forgetting to take Susan to the Coleridge dinner, how does Richard make things worse with her?

9. In Chapter 2, why is the Electric Monk completely still as he sits atop his horse?

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

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