The Pelican Brief Test | Final Test - Medium

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The Pelican Brief Test | Final Test - Medium

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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. With whom is Coal having a meeting in his limousine?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Voyles.
(c) Matthew Barr.
(d) Mattiece.

2. What has happened to Louisiana's brown pelicans?
(a) Too many hunters.
(b) Pesticides.
(c) Poaching.
(d) Destruction of their habitat.

3. Who told Shaw about the lawsuit between Mattiece and Green Fund?
(a) A clerk at the Federal Building in Lafayette.
(b) Callahan.
(c) Alice Start.
(d) John Del Greco.

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

5. How many weeks of vacation does the Post owe Grantham?
(a) Two months.
(b) Five weeks.
(c) Six weeks.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Rupert at midnight in Chapter 31?

2. What did Mrs. Morgan find when going through her husband's desk?

3. Where was the President's wife taking money from the rich?

4. Why is the President dissatisfied with a speech he is to give at College Park?

5. Where should Shaw have been instead of in New York researching lawyers?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Lewis wondered how Verheek could go down for a simple funeral and end up dead. Explain how that happened.

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

6. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

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

8. Who does Shaw see as she watches mourners arrive for Callahan's memorial service?

9. Why do Grantham and Shaw talk to students who clerked at White and Blazevich last summer?

10. Why does Horton want the Administration to investigate the pelican brief?

(see the answer keys)

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