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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 Susan listens to her answering machine tape and hears Gordon's rambling message, what does she do?
(a) Panics because Gordon seems to be in trouble.
(b) Wonders who switched tapes on her.
(c) Cuts the message short and gives the tape to Richard.
(d) Laughs at her brother's crazy antics.

2. How does Dirk Cjelli make a name for himself while he's in college?
(a) By inventing the precursor to the Electric Monk.
(b) Through his ability to read tea leaves.
(c) Through his ability to sleep thirty hours straight.
(d) By denying stories about his psychic abilities.

3. Why does Richard MacDuff dislike Michael Wenton-Weakes?
(a) He is arrogant and has no conscience.
(b) He is wealthy and feels sorry for himself.
(c) Michael got Richard fired.
(d) Michael dumped Richard's sister.

4. As a light rain falls on primordial Earth, what is stuck as a river of mud flows past it?
(a) Hat.
(b) Elevator.
(c) Cannon.
(d) Tower.

5. Who is Michael Wenton-Weakes' father?
(a) Lord Magna.
(b) Judge Barton.
(c) Sir Rothington.
(d) Count Olen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, who breaks into someone's apartment?

2. When the Coleridge dinner finally ends, where does Richard MacDuff go?

3. At the start of Chapter 3, what is Susan Way waiting for?

4. In Chapter 4, Richard MacDuff attends a dinner held in honor of whom?

5. After Gordon dies and steps out of his body, what does he find surprising?

Short Essay Questions

1. After forgetting to take Susan to the Coleridge dinner, how does Richard make things worse with her?

2. Why and how does Reg entertain Sarah, a bored little girl attending the Coleridge dinner?

3. Why is the Electric Monk confused after killing Gordon?

4. Explain how Dirk toys with Richard after spotting him breaking into an apartment.

5. Describe the range of emotions Susan experiences in Chapter 3.

6. What did Richard do before working for WayForward Technologies?

7. When Richard asks one of Reg's neighbors about the horse, what response does he get?

8. How does Richard explain to himself the vision he gets of Gordon Way standing in the middle of the road?

9. By the end of the first chapter, what appears to have happened to the tower?

10. Dirk Gently doesn't appear in earnest until about a third of the way into the story. Is he the main character, or is someone else the main character of the story?

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