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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 company symbols does Cody collect?
(a) Companies with cool symbols.
(b) Companies whose computer security he has not been able to breach.
(c) Companies whose computer security he has breached.
(d) Companies he wants to work for.

2. Why did the private detective Mrs. Quinlan hired to find Lilly stop searching?
(a) He found her.
(b) He did not think it a case worth pursuing.
(c) She did not pay him enough.
(d) He could not find anything of use.

3. What band is Cody Zeller listening to when Pierce goes into his office in Chapter 10?
(a) Metallica.
(b) The Black Eyed Peas.
(c) Twisted Sister.
(d) Guns N Roses.

4. What is a houseman?
(a) A chaperon at a college dorm.
(b) The manager of a lab.
(c) The man at the crackhouse who collected fees for the use of the house.
(d) Another name for the head of security in corporate America.

5. What does Pierce take from under the blotter at the front reception area at Entrepreneurial Concepts Unlimited?
(a) A pad with a password on it.
(b) A free coupon to a membership to one of the websites.
(c) A dollar.
(d) Lilly's file.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who calls Pierce at the end of Chapter 17 and agrees to meet to discuss Lilly Quinlan?

3. What is Arbadac Arba?

4. What does Chasing the Dime mean?

5. Why does the private detective Mrs. Quinlan hired tell Pierce he agreed to meet him in Chapter 18?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Pierce find when he lets himself into Lilly's house on Altair Place in Venice? What does he not find that he feels is surprising?

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

7. Why does Clyde Vernon grill Pierce on his breakup with Nicole?

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

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

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

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