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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. What is Mrs. Morgan's maiden name?

2. How many men did Sneller bring in from Miami by private jet?

3. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

4. What does Barr tell Coal when he is asked to bug Grantham's phone at the Post?

5. With whom is Coal having a meeting in his limousine?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

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

3. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

4. Why is the pelican brief a possible liability for the President?

5. Why hasn't Grantham's apartment been bugged?

6. Why does Gminski tell the President that the author of the pelican brief should become a novelist?

7. Why does Shaw gets angry when Grantham talks to her about being careful?

8. What might have happened if Mattiece has played it cool and not started killing people after the pelican brief surfaced?

9. Why did Khamel agree once to kill Castro, but then did not go through with the job?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why the pelican brief was first sent to the White House by Voyles and what his purpose was for giving the brief to Coal and the President.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Voyles is able to use information to keep the upper hand in his dealings with the President and with a senator who wants to investigate the FBI's protection of the justices.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapter 26, Voyles decides to do a complete investigation of the pelican brief. Explain why Voyles decides to do a complete investigation, and why he decides to not inform the President and Coal of his decision.

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