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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 did Morgan purchase shortly before his death?
(a) A million-dollar life insurance policy.
(b) A new car.
(c) A gun.
(d) Jewelry for his wife.

2. Who comes to Shaw's rescue when she is running from Stump?
(a) Big guys who were Saints fans.
(b) Rupert.
(c) The Cowboy.
(d) Veeker.

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

4. Who does Khamel kill when he gets on the shore in Louisiana?
(a) Luke.
(b) Veeker.
(c) Sam.
(d) Shaw.

5. In Chapter 27, who from the FBI and CIA meet with each other at Dupont Circle?
(a) Voyles and Gminski.
(b) Gminski and Lewis.
(c) Gminski and Lewis.
(d) Trope and Booker.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

2. While in New Orleans, to whose room does Khamel go to hide in a closet?

3. How many weeks of vacation does the Post owe Grantham?

4. Who does Khamel's employer want him to kill?

5. Who does Shaw see after leaving the bed and breakfast on Sunday morning?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does Grantham panic after talking with a maid outside his room at the Marbury?

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

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

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

6. How does Shaw learn that Curtis Morgan/Garcia is dead?

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

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

9. How did Shaw get away from Stump?

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

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