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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 25-27.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard first arrives at Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, he overhears Dirk explain to someone at the other end of the phone line that his job involves doing what?
(a) Comparing fingerprints and footprints to find similarities between cases.
(b) Finding a pattern in the holistic interconnectedness of all things.
(c) Tracking down and reprogramming Electronic Monks.
(d) Guessing why horses mysteriously end up in bathrooms.

2. While Gordon Way drives his car and leaves a lengthy phone message for Susan, what does he hear?
(a) A huge jet flying overhead.
(b) A loud siren all around him.
(c) An explosion to the west.
(d) A noise coming from the car trunk.

3. How does Gordon Way die at the end of Chapter 7?
(a) Chokes on a cracker.
(b) By shotgun.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) Falling off a cliff.

4. How long has Reg been at Cambridge?
(a) Twenty years.
(b) Two years.
(c) Two thousand years.
(d) Two hundred years.

5. When Richard and Dirk visit Reg, why does Dirk prompt Richard to ask about the conjuring trick?
(a) Dirk wants to learn how to do this trick.
(b) Dirk is too shy to ask about it himself.
(c) To get Richard to break the ice between them.
(d) To get Reg to confirm what Dirk already knows.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Reg's main reason for traveling through time?

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

3. When Gordon Way leaves a message on Susan's answering machine, what does he request of her?

4. What happens as the Electric Monk wonders what to do about Gordon, about his own missing horse, and about his belief systems?

5. After Dirk finally stops talking on the phone and welcomes Richard to his agency, he indicates that the light from the window works, gravity works, but with everything else, they simply have to:

(see the answer key)

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