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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 Richard has tampered with Susan's answering machine, she walks in with whom?
(a) Reg.
(b) Jonathan.
(c) Dirk.
(d) Michael.

2. One of Dirk's roommates notices that he's reciting what while he sleeps?
(a) Ingredients of secret recipes.
(b) Questions on upcoming midterms.
(c) Phone numbers of everyone on campus.
(d) Songs written thousands of years ago.

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

4. What happens as the Electric Monk wonders what to do about Gordon, about his own missing horse, and about his belief systems?
(a) It begins to snow.
(b) Gordon's ghost appears to him.
(c) Dirk finds him and tries to reprogram his circuits.
(d) Two men drop off his horse in the pasture.

5. Why does Dirk offer Richard his services as a detective?
(a) Police suspect Richard of being involved in Gordon's murder.
(b) Police suspect Richard of stealing a horse.
(c) Richard's cat has been missing since Easter.
(d) Richard is afraid Susan is seeing Michael behind his back.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the founder of WayForward Technologies like to call people and leave long, rambling messages on their answering machines?

2. How does Gordon Way die at the end of Chapter 7?

3. When Gordon Way leaves a message on Susan's answering machine, what does he request of her?

4. When Richard wakes up at the start of Chapter 16, he decides to make it up to Susan by doing what?

5. What command does the college porter give to a "strange priest" who turns out to be the Electric Monk?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the mysterious tower the author writes about as the book opens.

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

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

5. What does Richard see the first time that he goes to Dirk's agency?

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

7. Why does Richard dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?

8. Explain why Gordon is upset after he dies.

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

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

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