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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. From what did Pierce change his major in college to chemistry?

2. What does the private detective tell Pierce about his conversation with Robin during his investigation?

3. What is on a voice command in all the rooms of Pierce's workplace?

4. What is wrong with the kitchen at the address Pierce has for Lilly Quinlan in Chapter 8?

5. Who are the Fighting Moles?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Who is Isabelle? How did she die?

9. What is Amedeo attempting to develop in their labs as Pierce explains it to Monica in Chapter 11?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is Nicole James? What is her relationship to Pierce? How does he feel about her? What was her role at Amedeo? How did this role place Nicole as a security risk to the company? Why does Pierce want to call her when he learns about Lilly Quinlan? Why does she refuse to take his call? Why does Pierce come to suspect Nicole is selling secrets to a competitor of Amedeo? How does he learn that it was not Nicole selling his secrets? How does Nicole feel when she realizes how Pierce was testing her? is there any chance this relationship will be repaired in the future?

Essay Topic 2

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

1) Character motivation

2) Character traits

3) Character relationships.

Essay Topic 3

Who is Henry Pierce? What kind of research does he do? What does Pierce hope to do with his research? What does Horton Hears a Who? have to do with his work? What is Fantastic Voyage? What has that to do with Pierce's work? Why has Pierce recently moved? How does he feel about the move? Who keeps calling Pierce's new phone number? For what reason? What does Pierce do with this information? Why is Pierce so interested in the whereabouts of Lilly Quinlan? Whom does Lilly remind him of? For what reason? What guilt does Pierce carry around because of this person?

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