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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. Where was the President's wife taking money from the rich?

2. Where is Verheek to meet Shaw on Monday?

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

4. What does Shaw say when Grantham asks what she thinks of investigative reporting?

5. Who does the President invite to play golf with him on Monday afternoon?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who does Shaw see as she watches mourners arrive for Callahan's memorial service?

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

4. Describe Victor Mattiece and his eccentricities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare the knowledge that Shaw and Garcia had regarding the Rosenberg and Jensen murders. Also discuss how they obtained their information.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Abraham Rosenberg refuses to retire from the Supreme Court even though he is in extremely poor health.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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