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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Posters of what Dr. Seuss book decorate the walls of the lab at Pierce's company?
(a) Hop on Pop.
(b) The Cat in the Hat.
(c) Horton Hears a Who.
(d) Green Eggs and Ham.

3. 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.

4. Who does Pierce try to call in Chapter 16 only to be hung up on?
(a) Nicole.
(b) Monica.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Robin.

5. What item did Pierce get a patent for five years previously that began his current odyssey with his company?
(a) A molecular circuit.
(b) A molecular power source.
(c) A molecular computer.
(d) A molecular RAM.

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

7. Who does Pierce accuse Wainwright of working for in Chapter 13?
(a) The police.
(b) Billy Wentz.
(c) Grady Allison.
(d) Robin.

8. Why does Pierce not get a cab at the end of Chapter 15 when Renner releases him from the police station?
(a) He has no money.
(b) He wants to walk.
(c) Renner has offered him a ride.
(d) He has his car outside.

9. Who is James Wainwright?
(a) Pierce's business partner.
(b) Lilly's landlord.
(c) Monica's boyfriend.
(d) The owner of Entrepreneurial Concepts.

10. What is wrong with the kitchen at the address Pierce has for Lilly Quinlan in Chapter 8?
(a) A girl is dead on the floor.
(b) A strange man is at the table.
(c) A window is broken over the sink.
(d) The fruit in a bowl is all rotten.

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

12. What is Pierce willing to offer to an investor in exchange for the money he needs to continue his research?
(a) Five percent of his company.
(b) Ten percent of his company.
(c) Fifteen percent of his company.
(d) Twenty percent of his company.

13. Who gave Pierce a caricature of himself that hangs on the wall of his office?
(a) Monica.
(b) Charlie.
(c) His mother.
(d) Nicole.

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

15. Who are the Doomsters?
(a) Pierce's nemisises in college.
(b) Characters from a Scorsese movie.
(c) Pierce's college buddies from Stanford.
(d) Characters in a Dean Koontz novel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Pierce remind himself he will need lamps in his new apartment?

2. What did Charlie Condon do for a living before he earned his Master's in finance?

3. What is the point of view utilized in the novel Chasing the Dime?

4. What does Robin ask Pierce to buy for her before she will see him?

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

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