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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 the name of the competing technology firm that Nicole was last collecting information about before she left Pierce's company?
(a) DARPA.
(b) Amedeo Technologies.
(c) Midas Molecular.
(d) Bronson Technologies.

2. Who is Clyde Vernon?
(a) Pierce's personal assistant.
(b) Pierce's business partner.
(c) Pierce's lab manager.
(d) Pierce's head of security.

3. Who is Jacob Kaz?
(a) Pierce's patent attorney.
(b) Pierce's criminal attorney.
(c) Pierce's corporate attorney.
(d) Pierce's divorce attorney.

4. What does Pierce find behind a door marked private in the offices of Entrepreneurial Concepts Unlimited?
(a) Telephone operators.
(b) A computer room.
(c) Studios.
(d) Offices.

5. What does Pierce find under Lilly's bed in Chapter 13 and on the mattress covering the bed?
(a) A jar of rat poison and spilled alcohol.
(b) A large, brown stain he believes is blood.
(c) A gun and a stain that could be blood.
(d) Burn marks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pierce willing to offer to an investor in exchange for the money he needs to continue his research?

2. Why does Pierce tell his elevator companions in Chapter 19 that he needs to return to the lobby?

3. Where does the address Pierce found for Lilly lead him in Chapter 7?

4. Why does Pierce tell Renner about Robin in Chapter 15?

5. How long does Pierce tell Robin in Chapter 13 his sister's body lay in the open before someone called the police?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pierce notice as unusual inside his car when he returns to it in Chapter 16?

2. What is Amedeo attempting to develop in their labs as Pierce explains it to Monica in Chapter 11?

3. Why does Pierce ask Monica not to speak about him to other people?

4. How does a company like Amedeo Technologies pay its bills and pay for the research they do?

5. Why does Pierce call Nicole and ask her to look up Robin's number on the LA Darlings website in Chapter 20?

6. Why does Pierce go to All American Mail in Chapter 7? Why does he lie about wanting a mail box there?

7. Who is Monica Purl? Why is she at Pierce's apartment in Chapter 7?

8. Why does Pierce call Lilly's mother in Chapter 9? What does he learn from this conversation?

9. Why does Pierce think of rock stars, especially Jimi Hendrix, as he lies injured in his bedroom at the end of Chapter 20?

10. In a dream, Pierce finds himself in a crack house looking for someone. What does this dream tell the reader about Pierce?

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