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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. When Shaw is in New York, where does she go to research lawyers at law firms?
(a) Fordham law library.
(b) The New York Times.
(c) Columbia law library.
(d) The public library.

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

3. On Monday, what is Coal planning to do during lunch?
(a) Play squash.
(b) Play tennis.
(c) Play raquetball.
(d) Play golf.

4. What does Shaw say when Grantham asks what she thinks of investigative reporting?
(a) She might become a reporter if she lives through this mess.
(b) She would rather butcher hogs.
(c) She loves it.
(d) She would rather be shot.

5. When Shaw calls Grantham on Monday, what information does she tell him to get?
(a) Information about a trial.
(b) Information about Callahan's death.
(c) Information about Callahan's memorial service.
(d) Presidential campaign disclosure forms.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Morgan's second lockbox located?

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

3. Which two law firms in D.C. does Shaw say work for Mattiece?

4. How does Shaw get to Newark?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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