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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. How old is Grantham?

2. How many weeks of vacation does the Post owe Grantham?

3. What is Verheek to wear when he meets Shaw?

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

5. Who comes to Shaw's rescue when she is running from Stump?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

4. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

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

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

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

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

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

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

A series of murders are attributed to Mattiece in the novel. Describe his role in the murders of Rosenberg and Jensen, Callahan, Garcia/Morgan, Barr, and Verheek.

Essay Topic 3

Compare Rosenberg's and Jensen's reasons for not wanting FBI agents in their homes.

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