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

2. Who are the Fighting Moles?

3. Who is James Wainwright?

4. Who is Nicole James?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why does Pierce call back one of Lilly's callers and ask for the name of the website where her web page appears?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Monica? Why does she not like impersonating Lilly on the phone for Pierce? Why does Pierce lecture Monica about speaking of him out of turn? Why does Pierce try to explain to Monica what it is they do at Amedeo? Why does Monica request to be reassigned even though she is assistant to the president of the company? What does Monica dislike about Pierce? Is Pierce really a bad guy or is Monica blowing everything out of proportion?

Essay Topic 2

Who is Robin? Why does Pierce call her for information on Lilly? Does Robin help Pierce at first? What does Robin want Pierce to buy her when he comes to see her at her work apartment? How does this act constitute power on Robin's part? How much money does Pierce pay Robin for information? Does Robin give him good information? Why does Pierce make Robin take him to Lilly's work apartment? What does he find there? How is this connected to Robin? Why does Robin tell Pierce her real name? How does Pierce place Robin in trouble with Wentz? How does Robin react to this trouble?

Essay Topic 3

What is Proteus? Who created it? What is its purpose? What could Proteus do to the future of medicine and computer technology? Who would want to steal Proteus? Why does Zeller want to steal it? What does Zeller plan to do with it? For what reason? Why does Pierce quickly file the patents that will protect Proteus? What does Pierce hope this will do to protect Proteus? Who else is in on the plan to steal Proteus? What does this mean to the future of Amedeo?

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