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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Schlictmann's War Room?
(a) His office.
(b) His home.
(c) The defense's office.
(d) The conference room where he meets with the defense.

2. Who is Donald Frederico?
(a) The city engineer of Woburn.
(b) One of Cheeseman's young associates.
(c) An EPA regulator.
(d) A Grace Chemical executive.

3. Judge Skinner has a lengthy and mutual friendship with which of the attorneys?
(a) Jacobs.
(b) Facher.
(c) Schlictmann.
(d) Cheeseman.

4. What Grace Chemical supervisor has drums of TCE and other waste buried under a new addition being built?
(a) Paul Shalline.
(b) Rick Collins.
(c) Bob Thomas.
(d) Henry Wadsworth.

5. The week before trial, how much is the settlement offer made by Neil Jacobs for Beatrice Foods?
(a) $5 million.
(b) $8 million.
(c) $3 million.
(d) $10 million.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Jan Schlictmann go to law school?

2. Beverly Paigen provides Schlictmann with a report on what?

3. How is Judge Skinner selected for this trial?

4. Why does the state environmental department originally come to Woburn in 1979?

5. How much does Nesson estimate that the Woburn case is worth in punitive damages?

Short Essay Questions

1. Beatrice offers an $8 million settlement before trial. What two things would this settlement achieve for Schlictmann?

2. What is the status of the Woburn case when Mulligan gave the case to Schlictmann, and why does Mulligan give it to him?

3. According to the city engineer of Woburn, what causes the foul taste and murky discoloration from Wells G and H?

4. What does the three year Harvard School of Public Health Study of Woburn conclude?

5. When Dr. John Truman is convinced that the number of incidents of leukemia constitute a cluster, what does he do?

6. Why does John J. Riley sell the tannery to Beatrice Foods?

7. Briefly describe how Judge Skinner plans to divide the trial into phases.

8. What does Schlictmann do with the money he won in the Casey case?

9. What is the official city response to the citizen's committee to do something about the water?

10. Briefly describe what the "Woodshed Conference" is.

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