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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. How does Pierce's blood get onto the wall outside his building, twelve stories up?

2. What band is Cody Zeller listening to when Pierce goes into his office in Chapter 10?

3. Posters of what Dr. Seuss book decorate the walls of the lab at Pierce's company?

4. Why did the private detective Mrs. Quinlan hired to find Lilly stop searching?

5. Why did Pierce's stepfather send him into crack houses to find his sister, Isabelle, when he was a child?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Pierce go to the office of Entrepreneurial Concepts in Chapter 6? What does he hope to learn there?

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

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

5. How does Pierce end up hanging upside down outside his apartment balcony in Chapter 19?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

1) Setting

2) Point of View

3) Language.

Essay Topic 2

Who is Robert Renner? Why does Renner believe that Pierce killed Lilly Quinlan? What is a Good Samaritan? Why does Renner think that Pierce would call the police for a murder he committed? What admission does Pierce make that Renner sees as an admission of guilt? On what basis does Renner try to get a search warrant against Pierce? Why does Pierce's lawyer caution him about Renner? Why does Renner agree to help Pierce in the end? What happens when Renner hides in the wire lab during Pierce's conversation with Zeller? Does Renner believe Pierce to be innocent in the end?

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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