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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What item did Pierce get a patent for five years previously that began his current odyssey with his company?

2. What does Robin say Lilly always did with the single parking space at her working apartment?

3. What is the name of the competing technology firm that Nicole was last collecting information about before she left Pierce's company?

4. Who is Henry Pierce?

5. How much money does Robin tell Pierce it cost to spend an hour with her?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is in Lilly's apartment when Pierce arrives? What is he packing up? Why?

2. Why is Pierce living in a new apartment? What happened to his previous home?

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Why does Pierce promise Philip Glass he will back off his investigation into Lilly Quinlan's disappearance?

8. Why does Pierce lie about how he found Lilly's work apartment?

9. Who is Isabelle? How did she die?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss one of the following relationships in detail using quotes to support your conclusions:

1) Pierce and Nicole

2) Pierce and Condon

3) Pierce and Renner

4) Pierce and Monica

5) Pierce and Isabelle.

Essay Topic 2

Why does Pierce become so interested in the missing Lilly Quinlan? What does Lilly have to do with Pierce's sister? How did Pierce's sister die? Why does Pierce feel that her death is his fault? What reason did Isabelle give Pierce for running away from home? Was the accusation true? Why did Pierce let her go when he found her? What did Pierce plan to do for his sister in the future? Why did Pierce's stepfather make Pierce go into the crack houses to find his sister? How was Isabelle killed? How might her death have been avoided?

Essay Topic 3

What is Amedeo Technologies? Who is it named for? What do they do there? How will their research change the world? What kind of security do they have? How are the lights operated? Why is this important to the plot? What is significant about the labs at Amedeo? What do they do in the wire lab? What do they do in the imagining lab? What kind of goggles do they use in the laser lab? What is significant about these?

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