View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After Richard apologizes to Susan and she vents some of her anger, she tells him she has to work that weekend and:
(a) Forgives him.
(b) Tells him to bring a pizza.
(c) Kicks him out.
(d) Tickles him.

3. What happens to the glowing object that is stuck on primordial Earth?
(a) Crystalizes.
(b) Freezes.
(c) Time travels.
(d) Explodes.

4. What does the roaming alien ghost who is driven mad with guilt and loneliness want?
(a) To jump into another dimension where his friends are.
(b) A date with the female of his dreams.
(c) To go back in time to correct a mistake he made.
(d) A meeting with the president of the universe.

5. Who founded WayForward Technologies?
(a) Gordon Way.
(b) Susan Way.
(c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
(d) Dirk Gently.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. Who is Michael Wenton-Weakes' father?

3. Richard accuses Dirk of doing what?

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?

5. When he was living, what did the alien ghost driven to madness hope to accomplish on Earth?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Explain why Gordon is upset after he dies.

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why does Richard dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?

10. When Susan enters her apartment and finds Richard there, what does she do?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 988 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample