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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. As Richard and Dirk talk with the ancient alien ghost, trying to fully understand his story, Richard comes up with the theory that perhaps ghosts:
(a) Need to board an interdimensional limo.
(b) Live primarily on Jupiter.
(c) Fail to understand time.
(d) Exist like wave patterns.

2. According to the alien ghost's explanation, what has been orbiting Earth undetected since the explosion that killed him and his friends?
(a) The mothership.
(b) The Electric Monk's ship.
(c) A giant beach ball.
(d) A feeble ghost of his exploded ship.

3. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, what does Dirk say to Reg about his secret?
(a) It's impossible to figure out.
(b) Reg could get arrested if the secret gets out.
(c) The whole world already knows it.
(d) Dirk already knows what it is.

4. Dirk insists on talking about Richard's sofa with him because he firmly believes that:
(a) The sofa is an alien in disguise.
(b) All conversations lead to answers.
(c) Someone has hidden a message inside the sofa.
(d) All things are fundamentally interconnected.

5. After waking up from unusual dreams, pondering the events of the night before, and realizing he has no lunch date planned, what does Michael Wenton-Weakes do?
(a) Writes a poem about Gordon Way.
(b) Takes out his cello and starts playing a sad tune.
(c) Goes upstairs and listens to music.
(d) Calls Susan and asks if she's still seeing Richard.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the engines of the alien spaceship were damaged upon landing, the now-ghost had sent the Electric Monk out to do what?

2. Richard presses Reg to explain how he got the salt shaker into the old Greek pot, and Reg replies that:

3. Dirk tells Richard that under hypnosis, he was able to remember details he's not even aware of consciously, including a full description of what?

4. Since Richard can't go to the police, Dirk decides to do what?

5. Dirk hears Gordon's ghost on the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment. What does the ghost want?

Short Essay Questions

1. Susan keeps getting phone calls where all she hears is a faint wind. What are these calls about?

2. Why has Michael brought scuba gear with him to Reg's time machine?

3. Why does Dirk purchase an easy to use phone with large red push-buttons for his detective agency?

4. When Richard and his friends board the alien's mothership that has been orbiting Earth undetected for billions of years, what fills him with awe?

5. At the end of the book, how does Richard finally do right by Susan?

6. How do Chapters 18 - 20 hint at characters being possessed by ghosts?

7. Explain how the book's opening scene is repeated near the end of the book, but with a twist.

8. Why does Richard jump into a canal?

9. How does Dirk manipulate the police when he gets to Richard's apartment?

10. How does Dirk use the time machine to stop Michael from following the ghost's orders on primordial Earth?

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