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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. Where was the President's wife taking money from the rich?
(a) Chicago.
(b) D.C.
(c) Florida.
(d) Boston.

2. How does Shaw get to Newark?
(a) Rental car.
(b) Train.
(c) Bus.
(d) Taxi cab.

3. What does Voyles do when the President asks him to stop investigating the pelican brief?
(a) Records the conversation.
(b) Calls Lewis.
(c) Argued with the President.
(d) Refused to stop the investigation.

4. Where is Khamel hiding after the assassination of Rosenberg and Jensen?
(a) Havana.
(b) Rio de Janiero.
(c) Rome.
(d) Paris.

5. Where is Rupert at midnight in Chapter 31?
(a) New York City.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Boston.
(d) Georgetown.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Grantham?

2. What front-page story is run by the Times-Picayune that concerns the editors at the Post?

3. Where did Curtis Morgan live?

4. Who is the person mentioned in the pelican brief?

5. When did the rape of the Louisiana coastal wetlands begin?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sneller learn that Shaw is in D.C.?

2. What is the appeal process for the lawsuit between Mattiece and the Green Fund?

3. Who was waiting for Grantham outside the Post building?

4. How did Shaw get away from Stump?

5. What connection does Grantham make after Shaw tells him about the pelican brief?

6. Describe what happens when Grantham follows a man he believes to be Garcia into the offices of Brim, Stearns, and Kidlow?

7. Describe Mattiece's plan to make money in Louisiana's oil fields and how this plan has been thwarted.

8. How is Shaw able to talk with Linney at the hospital?

9. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

10. What was in the envelope Shaw found in Morgan's lockbox?

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