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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. Why does Pierce buy a five day pass to an adult website in Chapter 26?

2. Who does Pierce suspect of planting the keys and the scramble card for the storage unit among his things in Chapter 32?

3. What does Pierce leave behind as he exits the house on Amalfi in Chapter 35?

4. Who suggests that Proteus might win Pierce a Nobel Prize?

5. What angle does Langwiser suggest in Chapter 24 she will use with the supposed admission of guilt Renner has on Pierce?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Pierce do in Chapter 32 with the item he finds inside a storage unit rented in his name? Why?

2. What is a sniffer? Where did Pierce find one of these devices?

3. What is Proteus? What are some of its potential uses?

4. What does Pierce tell Nicole in Chapter 21 when she asks how he received his injuries? Why?

5. What does Langwiser tell Pierce over the phone in Chapter 30? What does this lead Pierce to do?

6. Where did Langwiser work before coming to work in the private sector? What does Pierce hope she can do for him?

7. What does Condon tell Goddard about Pierce's facial injuries in Chapter 27? What is Goddard's response?

8. What car does Lucy describe as the one outside Lilly's apartment the day she disappeared? How does Pierce connect this with someone he knows?

9. What does Pierce find hidden in his backpack in Chapter 31?

10. What does Pierce find in a storage unit rented in his name and attached to a scramble card he found in his backpack?

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 Wentz? Why does he show up at Pierce's new apartment? What does he want? What does he do to Pierce? For what reason? Who is Six-Eight? Why does he help Wentz hurt Pierce? What threat does Wentz make against Pierce? Why does Pierce begin calling Robin obsessively after the visit from Wentz? What does Pierce learn about Wentz after his attack? Is Pierce frightened of Wentz? Explain. Who does it turn out is Wentz' boss? Why does this person want to intimidate and harm Pierce? What is the chief motive?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Pierce's phone number. How did Pierce get his new phone number? Who set it up? Who begins calling the number from the start? How does this send Pierce down the road of investigating Lilly Quinlan's disappearance? Who does Pierce think had the number before him? Did he ever find a phone bill connecting this person to the number? Why not? How does it turn out the number became connected to Lilly Quinlan? Who set Pierce up?

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