Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Test | Final Test - Easy

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Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency Test | Final Test - Easy

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After seeking advice from Nicola, who is ill, about a cello piece with challenging fingering, Susan gets a call. She answers it and hears what?
(a) High-pitched screeching sound.
(b) Distant cry of wind.
(c) Disturbing laughter.
(d) Desperate crying.

2. What is Reg's main reason for traveling through time?
(a) To correct the past.
(b) To watch shows he has missed.
(c) To hide when necessary.
(d) To make his magic tricks possible.

3. During Richard's phone conversation with Susan about Gordon's murder, he learns that the police:
(a) Have a long list of suspects.
(b) No longer suspect him.
(c) Are ruling it a suicide.
(d) Now suspect Dirk.

4. Why did the alien's ship that landed on Earth several billion years ago explode?
(a) Lightning struck the ship.
(b) The engines weren't ready.
(c) Nobody knows.
(d) The Electric Monk pushed the wrong button.

5. In Chapter 28, Reg explains that for several months he hadn't been using the time machine because:
(a) He felt something had been trying to force him to use it.
(b) He didn't want to arouse suspicion.
(c) He needed to fix a broken circuit.
(d) He was afraid to go back and face his nemesis.

6. 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) Dirk already knows what it is.
(d) The whole world already knows it.

7. The individual sitting with drunk men on the train full of party revelers is haunted by an ancient ghost who says that:
(a) His group tried to reach Venus but ended up on Earth instead.
(b) His group came to Earth to destroy it.
(c) His group came to Earth to build a paradise.
(d) His group tried to reach another galaxy but ended up on Earth instead.

8. Reg replies "You're standing in it" in response to Dirk's question of where is the what?
(a) Alien spaceship.
(b) Time machine.
(c) Potions lab.
(d) Haunted room.

9. After his phone conversation with Susan, Richard rushes over to Dirk and Reg to reveal what vital piece of information?
(a) Michael murdered Ross.
(b) Gordon murdered Jonathan.
(c) Ross murdered Gordon.
(d) Michael murdered Gordon.

10. At the end of the story, Richard is able to make reservations for dinner with Susan at a very expensive, elite restaurant that's booked three weeks in advance by doing what?
(a) Going back in time.
(b) Claiming he took part in saving the world.
(c) Getting the ghost to scare the regulars out.
(d) Having Dirk tip the host.

11. What haunted the ancient alien ghost as he haunted Earth?
(a) Ghosts of deceased presidents.
(b) Knowledge of his charming home planet.
(c) Memories of his fellows who had died.
(d) Voices from television airwaves.

12. When Michael Wenton-Weakes digs into his wastebasket, he pulls out a copy of the magazine Fathom and finds what?
(a) Article about Susan.
(b) Article written by Richard.
(c) Ad for Electronic Monks.
(d) Ad for Dirk's agency.

13. Dirk figures out that the alien ghost wants to wipe out humanity and:
(a) Start over with dolphins as the dominant species.
(b) Let trees take over the world.
(c) Start over and build his own paradise.
(d) Haunt a planet free of annoying people.

14. The ghost explains that he was able to enter Samuel Taylor Coleridge's mind when he was what?
(a) In love.
(b) On laudanum.
(c) A toddler.
(d) An old man.

15. Reg's resistance to the poltergeist results in what?
(a) Supernatural activity.
(b) The college board wanting to fire him.
(c) A twisted knot in the time-space continuum.
(d) A broken, unusable time machine.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the end of the book, when Richard hears Susan play the cello, he recognizes the music as:

3. At the end of the book, Dirk sends one more bill to Mrs. Sauskind; what is this bill for?

4. After receiving the vital piece of information from Richard about a murder, Dirk realizes that the alien ghost was able to possess Michael because:

5. While Dirk, Reg, and Richard try to figure out what's behind all the strange recent events, who shows up at the gates of St. Cedd's carrying a large nylon bag?

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