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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. Why does Richard start to fall asleep at the dinner in Chapter 6?
(a) The professor has hypnotized him.
(b) A reader is reciting a poem.
(c) He's eaten too much.
(d) Harp music is playing.

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

3. When he was living, what did the alien ghost driven to madness hope to accomplish on Earth?
(a) Establish a utopian paradise.
(b) Meet the smartest human on the planet.
(c) Change the value of pi.
(d) Open an etiquette school.

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

5. The Electric Monk is:
(a) A human that looks like a machine.
(b) An alien that looks like a machine.
(c) A human that looks like an alien.
(d) A machine that looks human.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At first, Dirk Gently wants to help the roaming alien ghost using what?

3. How does Dirk Cjelli make a name for himself while he's in college?

4. How does Reg amuse a little girl named Sarah who is bored at the dinner party in Chapter 4?

5. When Richard returns from doing an errand, he finds Dirk on the phone defending a trip to Bermuda, claiming that while he was there he successfully did what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Gordon Way do on the last day of his life?

2. Describe the range of emotions Susan experiences in Chapter 3.

3. Explain why fellow students liked to wine and dine Dirk Gently.

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

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

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

7. Dirk Gently doesn't appear in earnest until about a third of the way into the story. Is he the main character, or is someone else the main character of the story?

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

9. What is an Electric Monk?

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

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