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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Michael, possessed by the alien ghost, leaves the time machine and heads toward the tower, what is he wearing?

2. After Dirk saves the whole human race from extinction, what does he crave?

3. When Richard visits Susan to comfort her after Gordon's death, the phone rings; Richard answers it and hears what?

4. The world that the ancient alien came from is what?

5. The ghost explains that he was able to enter Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mind when he was what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how Dirk and Richard feel about ghosts.

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

3. What does Michael reveal to drunken train travelers when he is possessed by an ancient alien ghost?

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

5. Explain why Dirk hypnotizes Richard.

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

7. When Michael Wenton-Weakes wakes up in a strange mood, what has he just dreamed about?

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

9. Summarize how the alien ghost ends up on Earth.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how the following characters provide welcome comic relief at various points in the story:

1. The Electric Monk.

2. Richard the successful programmer.

3. Professor Urban Chronotis.

Essay Topic 2

In this book, the paranormal is normal. Cite three instances where a paranormal activity is treated like a perfectly normal occurrence.

Essay Topic 3

Props and objects are strongly associated with specific characters. Explain the association between the following characters and their props and the importance of each object:

1. Susan and her cello.

2. Reg and his abacus.

3. Richard and his sofa.

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