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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. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?
(a) Frenchmen's Bend.
(b) French Quarter.
(c) Tulane.
(d) Shaw's apartment.

2. After Shaw leaves New Orleans, where does the CIA lose her trail?
(a) Orlando.
(b) O'Hare.
(c) Atlanta.
(d) Las Vegas.

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

4. How many men did Sneller bring in from Miami by private jet?
(a) Five.
(b) Two.
(c) Eight.
(d) Twelve.

5. Who does Grantham call at the White House to inquire about the pelican brief?
(a) Sarge.
(b) Coal.
(c) Zikman.
(d) The President.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 36, who does Shaw pretend to be?

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

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

4. How much is Croft being paid to watch lawyers' offices?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

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

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

4. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

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

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

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

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

9. How did Shaw get away from Stump?

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

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