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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. Who does Khamel's employer want him to kill?
(a) Veeker.
(b) Voyles.
(c) Shaw.
(d) Grantham.

2. Who kills Verheek?
(a) Khamel.
(b) The Cowboy.
(c) Sneller.
(d) Rupert.

3. Who is the person mentioned in the pelican brief?
(a) Coal.
(b) Mattiece.
(c) Barr.
(d) Khamel.

4. Why is Coal alarmed in Chapter 34?
(a) A conversation he has with East.
(b) A conversation he has with Richard Horton.
(c) A conversation he has with Lewis.
(d) A conversation he has with Gminski.

5. Who is Croft looking for as he watches lawyers' offices for Grantham?
(a) Mattiece.
(b) Shaw.
(c) Veeker.
(d) Garcia.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does the President wish to wait before beginning an investigation into the pelican brief?

2. Why does Grantham tell Shaw not to call him at home?

3. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

4. What is Mrs. Morgan's maiden name?

5. What does Shaw tell Grantham when he asks her why she wanted to be a lawyer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

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

7. How did Shaw get away from Stump?

8. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

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

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

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