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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What two calls does Grantham receive early Saturday morning?

2. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

3. Who is the night police reporter for the Post?

4. Who is the person mentioned in the pelican brief?

5. What does Shaw find in Morgan's lockbox?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What bad news does Coal share with the President on Monday morning?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain how Voyles is able to use information to keep the upper hand in his dealings with the President and with a senator who wants to investigate the FBI's protection of the justices.

Essay Topic 2

Although Justices Rosenberg and Jensen were very different individuals, both were murdered by the same man. Compare and contrast Rosenberg and Jensen.

Essay Topic 3

Explain the reasons why Thomas Callahan is one of the most popular professors at Tulane University.

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