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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 does Shaw find in Morgan's lockbox?

2. How long does the President wish to wait before beginning an investigation into the pelican brief?

3. With whom is Coal having a meeting in his limousine?

4. How does Shaw get to Newark?

5. Why is Grantham constantly scanning the Times?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Why would Edwin Sneller like to meet Shaw?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Throughout the novel, we see a strong contrast between the President of the United States and his Chief of Staff, Fletcher Coal. Compare and contrast the President and Coal.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why, in Chapter 4, Coal describes the murders of Rosenberg and Jensen as the perfect crisis.

Essay Topic 3

Describe the ways that the FBI and the CIA work together in the novel, and how they share information confidentially.

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