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

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

3. What deal does Shaw make with Grantham when she tells him she is in New York?
(a) To protect her.
(b) To get her a private airplane.
(c) Not to use her name.
(d) To get her out of the country.

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

5. In Chapter 36, who does Shaw pretend to be?
(a) A secretary at White and Blazevich.
(b) A Georgetown administrator.
(c) A Georgetown student.
(d) A partner at White and Blazevich.

Short Answer Questions

1. What three cities have law firms that work for Mattiece?

2. Why can't Shaw see Morgan when she goes to the offices of White and Blazevich?

3. How many men did Sneller bring in from Miami by private jet?

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

5. What did Morgan purchase shortly before his death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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