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

2. When Dirk listens to the answering machine tape found in Richard's apartment, he realizes that:
(a) He might be named a suspect if he's not careful.
(b) Gordon may still be alive somewhere.
(c) Richard couldn't possibly be connected to Gordon's murder.
(d) He doesn't know what he's looking for.

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

4. In order to stop the alien ghost from preventing life from starting on Earth, Richard, Reg and Dirk travel forward to:
(a) The year before the dodo becomes extinct.
(b) Clinton's era.
(c) The day man discovers fire.
(d) Coleridge's era.

5. 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 came to Earth to build a paradise.
(b) His group tried to reach Venus but ended up on Earth instead.
(c) His group came to Earth to destroy it.
(d) His group tried to reach another galaxy but ended up on Earth instead.

Short Answer Questions

1. With Michael now possessed by a ghost speaking through him, Dirk, Richard, and Reg learn what?

2. After Richard comes out of hypnosis, where does Dirk take him to talk about what he learned during the session?

3. Why does Dirk get an unusual phone with big red push-buttons?

4. Dirk tells Richard that under hypnosis, he was able to remember details he's not even aware of consciously, including a full description of what?

5. After Gordon's death, how does Dirk manage to get into Richard's apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Reg behave when he takes Dirk and Richard with him back in time to a rain forest?

2. Why is the answering machine tape Dirk finds in Richard's apartment important?

3. How does the alien ghost communicate with Dirk, Richard, and Reg?

4. What does Michael reveal to drunken train travelers when he is possessed by an ancient alien ghost?

5. Why does Richard jump into a canal?

6. When Michael Wenton-Weakes wakes up in a strange mood, what has he just dreamed about?

7. Explain how Dirk and Richard feel about ghosts.

8. Explain why Dirk hypnotizes Richard.

9. Susan keeps getting phone calls where all she hears is a faint wind. What are these calls about?

10. What reason does Reg give for resisting the temptation to use his time machine?

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