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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 Richard and Dirk go to Reg's home, Richard learns that:
(a) Reg has completely lost his mind.
(b) The Electric Monk has paid Reg a visit.
(c) Susan has paid Reg a visit.
(d) Dirk already knows Reg.
2. What does the ghost say about possessing Michael?
(a) No harm will come to him.
(b) No one will miss him.
(c) Michael is a twit who deserves to be haunted.
(d) Michael will never be the same again.
3. According to the alien ghost's explanation, what has been orbiting Earth undetected since the explosion that killed him and his friends?
(a) A giant beach ball.
(b) A feeble ghost of his exploded ship.
(c) The Electric Monk's ship.
(d) The mothership.
4. While Richard tries to explain to Susan who his friend Dirk Gently is, who arrives?
(a) Reg.
(b) Sergeant Gilks.
(c) Michael.
(d) Dirk.
5. Reg's resistance to the poltergeist results in what?
(a) A broken, unusable time machine.
(b) A twisted knot in the time-space continuum.
(c) The college board wanting to fire him.
(d) Supernatural activity.
Short Answer Questions
1. When Dirk listens to the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment, he realizes that:
2. After receiving the vital piece of information from Richard about a murder, Dirk realizes that the alien ghost was able to possess Michael because:
3. When Richard goes to Susan's place to comfort her after her brother's death, he finds her doing what?
4. In talking to Reg, Dirk figures out that when Richard seemed hypnotized, he really was:
5. After Dirk saves the whole human race from extinction, what does he crave?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why does Richard jump into a canal?
2. At the end of the book, how does Richard finally do right by Susan?
3. How does the alien ghost communicate with Dirk, Richard, and Reg?
4. Explain why Dirk hypnotizes Richard.
5. Why does Dirk purchase an easy to use phone with large red push-buttons for his detective agency?
6. How does Reg behave when he takes Dirk and Richard with him back in time to a rain forest?
7. What does Michael reveal to drunken train travelers when he is possessed by an ancient alien ghost?
8. Susan keeps getting phone calls where all she hears is a faint wind. What are these calls about?
9. Why is the answering machine tape Dirk finds in Richard's apartment important?
10. Summarize how the alien ghost ends up on Earth.
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