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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Richard calls Susan to apologize for forgetting to bring her to the college dinner, he suggests they do what?
(a) Get away to someplace sunny for a weekend or week.
(b) Forget the whole thing happened and start over.
(c) Split up for a while and think things over.
(d) Get some fish and chips and watch a movie.

2. In Chapter 7, when Gordon Way stops to fill his car with petrol, what else does he do?
(a) Buys a pack of batteries.
(b) Finishes a phone call.
(c) Talks to an unusual cat.
(d) Overfills his tires with air.

3. After Gordon's ghost arrives at his seven-bedroom cottage, he faints upon discovering what in the kitchen?
(a) His missing body.
(b) His missing cat.
(c) Richard's tape recorder.
(d) Susan's cello.

4. After Gordon dies and steps out of his body, what does he find surprising?
(a) He's still conscious.
(b) People can see him.
(c) He can fly.
(d) His car is intact.

5. After Michael Wenton-Weakes' father dies, who takes over the family publishing business?
(a) Michael's brother.
(b) Richard MacDuff.
(c) Dirk Gently.
(d) Michael's mother.

6. In Chapter 13, who breaks into someone's apartment?
(a) Reg.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Susan.
(d) Richard.

7. The author notes that even though a rider may sit on a horse all day long and not think about the creature, the one being sat upon:
(a) Thinks the one sitting upon it is selfish and stubborn.
(b) Would like the roles to be reversed.
(c) Can't help but form an opinion of the one sitting upon it.
(d) Wants a break now and again.

8. During his finals, Dirk makes a bet to try to disprove what?
(a) Rumors of his psychic abilities.
(b) The necessity of Electric Monks.
(c) Rumors of tampered recipes.
(d) The theory of relativity.

9. What happens after the Electric Monk and his horse walk through a small wooden door in the valley?
(a) The horse turns into a dog.
(b) An angel who had been watching, flies away.
(c) A figure who was hiding appears and heads to the door.
(d) The world turns blue.

10. When Richard wakes up at the start of Chapter 16, he decides to make it up to Susan by doing what?
(a) Buying her expensive jewelry.
(b) Taking her to an expensive restaurant.
(c) Taking her on an expensive cruise.
(d) Buying her an expensive computer.

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

12. When Richard leaves Reg's place after seeing a horse in the bathroom, he notices that:
(a) There are no scratch marks from the horse's hooves by the front door.
(b) There is a second identical horse standing by the front door.
(c) There are no cars parked in front of the house.
(d) There is a pile of hay on the front porch.

13. Once Dirk and Richard realize what the alien ghost wants, they set out to do what?
(a) Help him.
(b) Dissolve him.
(c) Trap him.
(d) Stop him.

14. In Chapter 12, as a lost Richard drives down the road trying to read his maps, he's also trying to place a phone call with whom?
(a) Gordon.
(b) Dirk.
(c) Reg.
(d) Susan.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Reg amuse a little girl named Sarah who is bored at the dinner party in Chapter 4?

2. What happens to the glowing object that is stuck on primordial Earth?

3. Richard writes Anthem, a financial spreadsheet that translates business financial numbers, into what?

4. What does Richard do right after Reg explains there's a horse in the upstairs bathroom?

5. What kind of car does Gordon Way drive?

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