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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. When Dirk questions Richard about information revealed under hypnosis, he first asks about what?
(a) Susan's cello performances.
(b) Richard's computer program.
(c) Michael's former magazine.
(d) Reg's magic tricks.

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

3. After Reg talks to Richard and Dirk and explains the whole business about the horse, the ghost, the face powder, and quantum jumps, he mentions that:
(a) The horse didn't want to leave.
(b) The powder gave him a rash.
(c) The ghost has left.
(d) Quantum jumps add years to one's life.

4. Who was trying to use Dirk's agency telephone to make a call to Susan?
(a) Richard.
(b) The alient ghost.
(c) Michael.
(d) Gordon's ghost.

5. When Michael, possessed by the alien ghost, leaves the time machine and heads toward the tower, what is he wearing?
(a) Red tie.
(b) Space suit.
(c) Angel wings.
(d) Scuba gear.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Dirk get an unusual phone with big red push-buttons?

2. What does Sergeant Gilks determine after listening to the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment?

3. After his phone conversation with Susan, Richard rushes over to Dirk and Reg to reveal what vital piece of information?

4. Why do Reg, Richard, and Dirk travel across time to a rain forest in Mauritius in 1676?

5. Who sits next to three drunk men on a train that is full of party revelers from a wedding?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Reg behave when he takes Dirk and Richard with him back in time to a rain forest?

3. How is the alien ghost responsible for life on Earth?

4. What happens when the Electric Monk believes that Sergeant Gilks is a god?

5. Why is the answering machine tape Dirk finds in Richard's apartment important?

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

7. 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?

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

9. Why do Dirk and Reg seem so familiar with each other?

10. Explain why Dirk hypnotizes Richard.

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