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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. Richard accuses Dirk of doing what?
(a) Changing his name to avoid paying taxes.
(b) Killing Gordon and stealing the body.
(c) Running a scam and stealing old ladies' money.
(d) Incorrectly reprogramming Electric Monks.

2. When the Coleridge dinner finally ends, where does Richard MacDuff go?
(a) His own temporary living quarters.
(b) Gordon's temporary office.
(c) Dirk's small office.
(d) Reg's small apartment.

3. As the Electric Monk's belief in a door in the valley solidifies into the notion that the Door is The Way, what happens?
(a) He finds the door.
(b) Snow starts to fall.
(c) The world turns purple.
(d) His horse disappears.

4. In this novel, what starts life on primordial Earth?
(a) An alien's accident.
(b) A stray soda can.
(c) A bacterium traveling back in time.
(d) A sneezing astronaut.

5. The Electric Monk has taken Gordon's body back to his cottage as a sacred duty, but he doesn't understand why Gordon didn't get back up the way:
(a) Electric Monks always get back up.
(b) His horse gets up after being shot.
(c) People get up after sleeping.
(d) People do on TV in his world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the Electric Monk?

2. Gordon's ghost wakes up from his fainting spell by the sound of what?

3. During his finals, Dirk makes a bet to try to disprove what?

4. When the little girl at the dinner party in Chapter 4 grows restless and kicks the table, what does her father do?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why can't Richard bring Susan to the French restaurant, L'Esprit d'Escalier?

5. When Richard asks one of Reg's neighbors about the horse, what response does he get?

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

7. What is an Electric Monk?

8. How does Richard explain to himself the vision he gets of Gordon Way standing in the middle of the road?

9. What did Richard do before working for WayForward Technologies?

10. Why and how does Reg entertain Sarah, a bored little girl attending the Coleridge dinner?

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