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Quiz about The Long Dark TeaTime of the Soul Ch 3 4

"The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul" -- Ch. 3 & 4 Quiz

The third installment in a long-overdue series of quizzes.

A multiple-choice quiz by ubermom. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
ubermom

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
202,320

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
15

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
10 / 15

Plays
448

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Question 1 of 15

1. In chapter three, we finally encounter Dirk Gently. What was he doing when the chapter opened? Hint

Sleeping

Eating

Smoking

Walking

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Question 2 of 15

2. Who was NOT one of the people Adams said would be displeased with Dirk's home? Hint

Louis XIV

Hercules

Michelangelo

Princess Diana

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Question 3 of 15

3. What lurked in Dirk's kitchen?

Answer: (Two Words, one of which is an article or possessive pronoun)

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Question 4 of 15

4. Who had recently left Dirk's employ? Hint

His secretary

Neither

His cleaning lady

Both

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Question 5 of 15

5. What job did Dirk do to earn money while his detective business was in a slump? Hint

What?! Soil his hands with plebeian jobs?!

Dog walking

Palmistry

Writing horoscopes

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Question 6 of 15

6. What did Dirk realize as he sat at his kitchen table, praying for a client? Hint

His cleaning lady owed him money.

A client was knocking on his door.

He already had a client.

An old client owed him money.

7. Dirk decided not to drive to his appointment, partly because he had no gas nor money for gas, but also because he would probably just get lost. Why did Dirk frequently get lost when driving? Hint

He had a "Zen" method of navigating.

He used a broken magnet to navigate.

He navigated "holistically."

He consistently asked for directions from people who didn't speak English.

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Question 8 of 15

8. Dirk's client was "clearly loopy," but there was one compelling reason for Dirk to take the case. What was it? Hint

Dirk would be killed if he couldn't solve the case.

The client was Dirk's friend.

Three hundred pounds a day plus expenses.

There was a huge reward being offered for solving the case.

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Question 9 of 15

9. Dirk's client, Geoff Anstey, was perfectly willing to pay Dirk's fee and expenses, but he expected one totally unreasonable thing from Dirk. What was this unreasonable expectation? Hint

That Dirk meet him at his home at 6:30 a.m.

That Dirk must clean his refrigerator.

That Dirk not smoke while working for him.

That Dirk must accompany him on a visit to Valhalla.

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Question 10 of 15

10. Dirk's client had babbled about several things while explaining his situation to Dirk. Which was NOT one of the things he babbled about? Hint

A potato.

A seven-foot tall, shaggy haired demon.

Norse gods.

A contract.

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Question 11 of 15

11. On his way to meet with his client, Dirk picked up a newspaper and immediately checked what section? Hint

The horoscopes.

The classified ads.

The sports page.

The society page.

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Question 12 of 15

12. The newspaper also featured a picture that Dirk pondered briefly. What was in the photograph? Hint

The destroyed terminal at Heathrow.

A missing fighter pilot.

An eagle.

The missing airline girl.

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Question 13 of 15

13. Dirk hoped to string his client along for how long, before no longer being able to keep a straight face? Hint

Three or four months.

Three or four weeks.

Three or four days.

Three or four hours.

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Question 14 of 15

14. As Dirk approached his client's home on Lupton road, what disturbing sight did he see? Hint

A seven-foot tall, shaggy haired demon with a scythe.

Several firetrucks and news vans.

A huge, angry eagle.

Several police cars and an ambulance.

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Question 15 of 15

15. What Dirk saw on Lupton Road did not sit comfortably with his visions of ...what? Hint

A new car.

A new refrigerator.

Staying alive.

Making it home by tea-time.

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. In chapter three, we finally encounter Dirk Gently. What was he doing when the chapter opened?

Answer: Sleeping

Dirk was quite inert, sleeping through the phone's insistent ringing, the delivery and collection of a harpsichord, and lively sirens on a nearby street. He was, as Adams says, "not fooling about when he climbed into bed of a night and turned off the light."

2. Who was NOT one of the people Adams said would be displeased with Dirk's home?

Answer: Princess Diana

Louis XIV "would have desired someone to pick up the socks, put the records away, and maybe burn the place down." Michelangelo "would have been distressed by its proportions". Hercules, upon examining the room, "would probably have returned half an hour later armed with a navigable river." Princess Diana's opinion, on the other hand, we will never know.

3. What lurked in Dirk's kitchen?

Answer: a refrigerator

Dirk and his cleaning lady had a three-month silently waged battle, each trying to avoid being the first to open the refrigerator.

4. Who had recently left Dirk's employ?

Answer: His secretary

She had preferred monotony of pay over job satisfaction, according to Dirk. Dirk wanted to fire the cleaning lady, but couldn't because he owed her back wages and couldn't afford to pay her off.

5. What job did Dirk do to earn money while his detective business was in a slump?

Answer: Palmistry

He "could have withstood ... the hateful, abject humiliation... if he hadn't been so horribly, excruciatingly good at it." He told one woman that her husband was "a bit of a flighty type." It turned out her husband was a fighter pilot who had gone missing over the North Sea.

6. What did Dirk realize as he sat at his kitchen table, praying for a client?

Answer: He already had a client.

He realized that he already had a client -- and an appointment with that client. He tore out of the house, "five hours late but moving fast."

7. Dirk decided not to drive to his appointment, partly because he had no gas nor money for gas, but also because he would probably just get lost. Why did Dirk frequently get lost when driving?

Answer: He had a "Zen" method of navigating.

He would find a car "that looked as if it knew where it was going" and follow it. "The results were more often surprising than successful," but at times they were both.

8. Dirk's client was "clearly loopy," but there was one compelling reason for Dirk to take the case. What was it?

Answer: Three hundred pounds a day plus expenses.

Dirk even figured he could list his refrigerator as an intangible expense.

9. Dirk's client, Geoff Anstey, was perfectly willing to pay Dirk's fee and expenses, but he expected one totally unreasonable thing from Dirk. What was this unreasonable expectation?

Answer: That Dirk meet him at his home at 6:30 a.m.

But, Dirk mused, "Six-thirty was clearly a preposterous time, and he, the client, obviously hadn't meant it seriously."

10. Dirk's client had babbled about several things while explaining his situation to Dirk. Which was NOT one of the things he babbled about?

Answer: Norse gods.

The babbling, in fact, seemed to be related to a seven-foot tall, shaggy-haired, scythe-wielding demon waving a contract about a potato.

11. On his way to meet with his client, Dirk picked up a newspaper and immediately checked what section?

Answer: The horoscopes.

The horoscopes were written by one of Dirk's friends, "The Great Zaganza," who knew when Dirk's birthday was and always wrote a deliberately provocative horoscope for Dirk.

12. The newspaper also featured a picture that Dirk pondered briefly. What was in the photograph?

Answer: The missing airline girl.

Dirk was also given, but failed to connect, several clues as to the missing girl's identity. It gave her name, and her father's name. But the preoccupied Dirk didn't make the connection. She was, indeed, somebody Dirk knew.

13. Dirk hoped to string his client along for how long, before no longer being able to keep a straight face?

Answer: Three or four days.

"Dirk didn't think he'd be able to manage a whole week with a straight face, but he was already looking at something like a grand for his trouble."

14. As Dirk approached his client's home on Lupton road, what disturbing sight did he see?

Answer: Several police cars and an ambulance.

Dirk most assuredly did not like this sight.

15. What Dirk saw on Lupton Road did not sit comfortably with his visions of ...what?

Answer: A new refrigerator.

The sight of those police cars did not bode well at all.

Source: Author ubermom

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