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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 much money does Shaw wire from her bank account?

2. Where does Grantham go to meet Shaw for the first time?

3. What does Mrs. Morgan call the offices of White and Blazevich?

4. While in New Orleans, to whose room does Khamel go to hide in a closet?

5. Where did Curtis Morgan live?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The President tries to blame the murders of Rosenberg and Jensen on the FBI. Discuss why the FBI is or is not responsible for the deaths of these justices.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 2, Callahan asks students to discuss Nash v. New Jersey. Compare the majority opinion of the Supreme Court and the dissent in this case.

Essay Topic 3

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

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