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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 Arbadac Arba?
(a) The street Lilly lived on.
(b) Abra Cadabra written backwards, the password from Entrepreneurial Concepts.
(c) Pierce's password for his work computer.
(d) Pierce's nickname for Nicole.

2. For what was Pierce arrested as a college student at Stanford?
(a) Theft.
(b) Impersonating an officer.
(c) Soliciting a prostitute.
(d) Murder.

3. What memory of the Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica pier does Pierce repeatedly think of throughout the novel?
(a) An Amedeo party at which he and Nicole rode the Ferris wheel for an extended amount of time.
(b) A ride with a girlfriend in high school of whom Robin reminds him.
(c) A bad experience with heights as a child.
(d) A forbidden kiss with a colleagues wife during a ride on a Ferris wheel.

4. How did Isabelle Pierce's killer die?
(a) He died of cancer in jail.
(b) He was shot by cops.
(c) He was executed for murder.
(d) He committed suicide upon discovery of his crimes.

5. What name does Pierce reveal in Chapter 16 his sister used on the streets before her death?
(a) Rose.
(b) Angel.
(c) Lilly.
(d) Harriet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is wrong with the kitchen at the address Pierce has for Lilly Quinlan in Chapter 8?

2. What reason does Pierce give Renner in Chapter 14 for investigating Lilly Quinlan's disappearance?

3. Who takes Pierce's keys as they get off the elevator in Chapter 19?

4. Who is Nicole James?

5. Who does Robin claim really runs Entrepreneurial Concepts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Robin call and leave a message for Pierce in Chapter 16? What does she reveal to Pierce about herself during a subsequent phone call?

2. What is the connection between Fantastic Voyage and Amedeo's current project?

3. Why does Pierce call the police at the end of Chapter 13? What is the result of this phone call?

4. What does Pierce learn is the name of the man who runs Entrepreneurial Concepts? Why does Pierce threaten to sue this man?

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

6. How does Pierce end up hanging upside down outside his apartment balcony in Chapter 19?

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

8. Why does Pierce go to the office of Entrepreneurial Concepts in Chapter 6? What does he hope to learn there?

9. Why does Pierce go to visit his college friend, Cody Zeller? What does he want Cody to do for him?

10. What is a patent package? What does Pierce plan to do with it?

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